is true if and only if p” in order to offer a satisfactory framework for semantics. The logical starting point for this successive enlargement is a language LF in which no individual terms occur altogether. This would be a feature-placing language the well-formed formulae of which correspond to statements of a “naming game” such as:
Fig. 1: The Ontological Square The preceding reflections only constitute an informal motivation of the distinctions that make up the Ontological Square. A formal justification shall be provided in the shape
3. RECONSTRUCTING THE ARISTOTELIAN ONTOLOGICAL SQUARE 3.1 From features to objects The deflationist approach to ontology sketched above is spelled out in a series of languages, each member of which, with the exception of the starting point, is a conservative extension of its predecessor in virtue of two operations: 1. the addition of individual terms of a new category to the alphabet of the predecessor,
• Rain(ing) here now! • Water here now! • Coal here now! • Rabbit here now!
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2. the addition of introduction/elimination rules for statements involving these new terms, supplemented by further auxiliary rules governing the predicates that occur in these statements as well as by definitions.
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that simply protocol the apparition of subjectless features within the sphere of conscious experience (Strawson 1959, pp. 202–203). These features may be that of homogeneous stuffs, as in the case of “water” or “coal,” of heterogeneous patterns of spatial or temporal occupation, as in the case of “rabbit,” or of qualia such as “scent of roses” or “red.” It should be emphasized that features are not properties of space-time points, since the spatial and temporal adverbs appearing in the statements of a feature-placing language are to be regarded as sentential, namely modal operators. I shall return to the issue of temporal modality further below. So let us consider the atomic well-formed formulae of LF as corresponding to single-word phrases in natural language. More precisely, the predicates of LF are all anadic, and thus by themselves constitute the atomic sentences of LF. The feature-placing language LF can be extended to an object-centered language LO, which in addition to anadic predicates or single-word sentences comprises predicates of any adicity, with argument places for variables ranging over the domain of objects (xo,x1o,x2o, etc., yo,y1o,y2o, etc., zo,z1o,z2o, etc.). A mapping μ associates to each LF-predicate a set of Lopredicates of non-zero adicity. Indeed, some features, e.g. those corresponding to homogeneous stuffs such as “coal,” may be associated to more than one predicate of objects, e.g. “lump of coal,” “grain of coal,” or “veins of coal,” since they may be subject to arbitrary (de-)compositions. Other features, in particular those that are tantamount to patterns of spatial and temporal distribution, may generally be associated with single predicates of objects only, since they may not undergo arbitrary fusions. Given the mapping μ, one can, for each pair of predicates ϕ of LF and ψ of LO, such that ψ∈μ(ϕ), propose an introduction/elimination rule, which has ϕ as its single premiss and a full existential quantification of the open formula ψ(x1o,…,xno) as its conclusion:
IE1 [ψ∈μ(ϕ):] ϕ⊣⊢∃xo1 …∃xno ψ(x1o,…,xno)
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one member of S: these predicates are called sortals.6 I write “ψ+s” for “ is a sortal” and “ψ-s” for “ is a non-sortal.” Note that by no means the passage from a feature-placing language to an object-centered language sketched here is claimed to be cognitively plausible in any way. Far from presupposing that each speaker of English or any other natural language ever consciously goes through the stage of featureplacing, this step merely serves as a starting point for a logical construction. 3.2 Universals: kinds and characters The language LO can be extended to the language LU by introducing individual variables ranging over universals, i.e. kinds (marked by the superscript “k”) or characters (marked by the superscript “c.i”, where i is a number indicating the adicity of the character): • Xk, Yk, Zk, X1k,Y1k,Z1k, X2k, Y2k, Z2k,… • Xc.i,Yc.i, Zc.i, X1c.i,Y1c.i, Z1c.i, X2c.i,Y2c.i, Z2c.i,… Furthermore, I adopt a dyadic predicate “Xk/c.i⋮ψ+/-s” (reading: “Xk/c.i is the abstraction of ψ+/-s”), which holds between universal variables and satisfiable predicates of LO, such that sortal predicates are always associated with kind variables and n-place non-sortal predicates always with character variables of (non-zero) adicity n. Thus one can stipulate introduction and elimination rules for existential claims about kinds and characters: IE2 IE3
ψ+s (xo)⊣⊢∃Xk (Xk⋮ψ+s ∧xo ι Xk) ψ-s (x1o,…,xno)⊣⊢ ∃Xc.n (Xc.n⋮ψ-s ∧x1o,…,xno ϵ Xc.n)
where “xo ι Xk” means that the object xo instantiates or is an instance of the kind Xk, and “x1o,…,xno ϵ Xc.n” means that the objects exemplify the (n-adic) character Xc.n. 3.3 Moments The language of universals LU can be expanded into the language of moments LM by introducing variables ranging over moments of any (non-zero) adicity i, i.e. x m.i, y m.i, z m.i, x1 m.i, y1 m.i, z1 m.i, x2 m.i, y2 m.i, z2 m.i… and by adopting the introduction/elimination rule IE4 xo1,…,xno ϵ Xc.n ⊣⊢∃xm.n (xm.n τ Xc.n∧xm.n ⟨xo1,…,xno) where
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In the process of introducing terms for entities of the various categories within the Aristotelian Ontological Square, we have also added predicates for instantiation, exemplification, inherence and tokenization. These predicates may aptly be called “transcendentals”’ inasmuch as they cross the categorial borders between kinds, characters, objects and moments. For this reason, it is only a matter of caution not to augment the Language of the Ontological Square with introduction rules that would allow the reification of those predicates, a choice which amounts to a form of nominalism about purported higher-order universals.
3.3 Grounding and the ontological priority of objects Using the introduction and elimination rules stated above, a partial order of grounding relations between ontological categories can be defined and a class of entities can be identified as ontologically basic in the sense of being the least element in that partial order. Now, the reader should be reminded that according to ontological deflationism all existence statements are equally deep or shallow. This means that an ontological deflationist cannot, on pain of incoherence, both maintain that items of certain categories exist and that they are “nothing over and above” whatever category of entities that may be considered ontologically basic. In ontological minimalism, as pretty much elsewhere, there ain’t such a thing as a free lunch. However, while “free lunch” double-talk is not permissible within ontological minimalism, the ontological commitment to entities of a basic category may be considered to be more fundamental than the ontological commitment to classes of entities that are higher up in the grounding hierarchy. Let the notions of “immediate grounding” and “grounding” be defined as follows. A class of entities C1 immediately grounds a class of entities C2 if, and only if C1 appears in the introduction and elimination rule for C2. A class of entities
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Fig. 2: Grounding between the elements of the Ontological Square The fact that objects ground all other classes of entities within the Ontological Square represents a “victory of substantial particularity,” inasmuch as both universals and moments are grounded on objects. However, the present view also supports realism in the sense that the introduction rules ensure the existence of all classes of entities that belong to the Ontological Square. So the present approach emphasizes the primacy of objects without denying the existence of kinds, characters and moments, which is certainly Aristotelian in spirit if not in letter.
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4.1 Times as substantial universals According to Strawson (1959, p. 38f), objects, more specifically material bodies, are also ontologically prior to other particulars in terms of particular-identification. The members of a category A are (generically) ontologically prior to those of a category B if, and only if the Bs are identifiability-dependent on the As, i.e. if, and only if the Bs can only be identified provided the As have already been singled out (Strawson 1959, p. 17). Objects, being three-dimensional particulars with some endurance through time, are identifiability-independent because they alone are suitable for being nodes within a single spatiotemporal framework of reference on which particular-identification ultimately rests (Strawson 1959, p. 39). However, someone could object to this thesis on the ground that objects are not fine-grained enough in terms of their duration in order to constitute sufficiently many temporal reference points within a spatiotemporal framework of reference. This may be one of the main reasons why Barry, following Moravcsik (1976), has adopted the view that the Aristotelian Ontological Square must be completed by adding two categories, namely processes and processual universals (see Smith 2005). Nonetheless, I maintain that since objects gradually come into and go out of being while their durations overlap, there should be enough of classes of contemporaneous objects to stand in for times. Let us assume that these classes are a special subcategory of kinds: these kinds could be regarded as the bearers of temporal relations. In other words, I propose to regard times as a special sort of substantial universals. So, substances are ontologically prior in terms of particular-identification after all, if among substances one includes universal substances, i.e. kinds, as well as particular substances, i.e. objects. Objects are in time inasmuch as they instantiate times; since they endure in time, they may instantiate more than one time. But objects are not the only temporal entities. Indeed, in order to account for accidental change, one may assume moments, including the spatial locations of objects, to be temporally located, too. Thus, an object’s having incompatible properties at different times amounts to moments with different temporal locations inhering in the very same object. There are some significant differences between moments and objects with respect to being in time, though. On the one hand, temporal location of moments cannot not
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be analyzed in terms of instantiation as in the case of objects. On the other hand, it is arguable that, contrary to objects, moments may be instantaneous, i.e. temporally unilocated. 4.2 Elements of a basic theory of time Assuming that times can be associated with universal substances or kinds, our task is to find introduction and elimination rules for existence claims specifically about times, kinds having already been introduced at an earlier stage of the construction of the Language of the Ontological Square. In a Priorian fashion, we may assume that ordinary modal idioms are primitive and that modal statements constitute the entry ticket for commitments to times (cf. Prior 1959/1976). Let us assume a simple, if not simplistic modal language for temporal reasoning, namely K4t: The modal operators F (“sometimes in the future”) and P (“sometimes in the past”) are assumed to be primitive, while the operators G (“it is always going to be the case that”) and H (“it has always been the case that”) are defined in a straightforward manner: D1 Gϕ≣ ~ F ~ ϕ D2 Hϕ≣ ~ P ~ ϕ Assuming that each syntactically independent or top-level sentence is to be evaluated at the present time, we can formulate two introduction and elimination rules, one for future times and another for past times, a commitment to the present time being concurrent in both rules. So the sentence “sometimes in the future it will be the case that ϕ” is the antecedent for the statement that there is at least one time T that is preceded by the present time such that ϕ holds at T.7 IE6a Fϕ ⊣⊢ ∃T (T@ ≺ T ∧ [ϕ]T) Correspondingly, the sentence “sometimes in the past it is the case that ϕ” is the antecedent for the statement that there is at least one time T that precedes the present time such that ϕ holds at T. IE6b Pϕ ⊣⊢ ∃T (T@ ≺ T ∧ [ϕ]T) In order to guarantee that all theorems of K4t turn out to be true, the relation of temporal precedence has to be transitive at least. R2
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The statement that a character is exemplified by a (sequence of) object(s) at a certain time is tantamount to the statement that the character has a case or token that inheres in this sequence/object at that time. D4
[x1o...xno ϵ Xc.n]T ≡ ∃xm (xm.n τ Xc.n ∧ [xm.n ⟨x1o...xno]T)
4.3 Fragmentalism and the ineffability of the passage of time Presentism is the combination of two views: 1. 2.
the ordinary tense idioms are primitive; only present entities exist.9
As far as (2) is concerned, both descriptivism and ontological minimalism do not seem to be very accommodating. On the one hand, the transcendental account of the conditions of possibility for particular-identification posits past and future entities within a four-dimensional framework of reference. On the other hand, within ontological minimalism, any reduction turns out to be a straightforward introduction of the reduced entities into discourse, not their elimination from it. This means that in a deflationist context, any attempt to eliminate references to past and future entities by reducing them to references to presently existing things actually ends up providing grounds for existence statements about non-present entities, these grounds being exactly those statements that are supposed to provide the analyses of existence claims about past and future things.
The situation is slightly different with respect to (1). I have shown above how in a minimalist descriptivist setting modal idioms may be used as entry tickets or grounds for existence claims about times.10 What is more, the existence statements that are introduced into the language already contain one ultimately irreducible modal idiom, namely that of the uniquely designating expression of “the present moment.” If the flow of time is real, it is obvious that the reference of “the present time” is by no means rigid. This implies that the extensions of the predicates “past time” and “future time” are not rigid, either. Now, while Aristotelian Four-Category Ontology is incomplete without these notions, it seems to be under the threat of incoherence if it contains them: as time flees, what is future becomes present and what is present becomes past. The only way to preserve coherence is to distinguish between an untensed (or eternalist) and thus incomplete trunk ontology and an infinite sequence of tensed (or presentist) ontologies into which the former is successively instantiated and which only differ in the reference of the notion of “the present time” and the extension of the predicates “past time” and “future time.” The view that taking the passage of time seriously enforces a fragmentation of ontology and the abandonment of the idea of the unity of reality has been christened “fragmentalism” by Fine (2005, pp. 281–284),11 but has been anticipated by Barry (see Grenon and Smith 2004) under the name of SNAP.12 Now, the passage of time enforces fragmentalism, but strictly speaking is invisible in each single presentist ontology. Pace Smith (ibid.), a fortiori this gap cannot be closed by adjoining an ontology of processes (which he calls SPAN) since this ontology is untensed. Hence neither a presentist ontology nor the eternalist trunk ontology can represent the passage of time: in this sense it is ineffable. Instead it shows itself in the succession of presentist ontologies: the flow of time is not ontological, nor meta-ontological, but literally dia-ontological. What holds for the passage of time is even more so true for (human) action or activity (in the sense of energeia) as contrasted with the act (in the sense of ergon) that is its result. The diaontological character of action could be at the root of the puzzling problem of free will: the escape route between the Scylla of determinism and the Charybdis of indeterminism may be neither within, nor above, but in between ontologies.
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The definition of the expression “ϕ holds at T ” ([ϕ]T) is obvious for molecular statements; I focus on atomic statements. Now, I suppose, but will not argue for the stance that instantiation of kinds by objects and tokenization of characters by moments are temporally invariant, that is, an object is an instance of its kinds simpliciter or atemporally and a moment is a case or token of its characters simpliciter or atemporally.8 This invariance is ensured by stipulating that “[xo ι Xk]T is equivalent to “xo ι Xk” and “[xm.n τXc.n]T” is equivalent to “xm.n τXc.n.” Therefore, the only atomic statements affected by tense are exemplification claims and inherence claims. Thus, the statement that a moment inheres in a (sequence of) object(s) at a certain time is tantamount to the statement that the moment inheres in this sequence/object and that it is located at or a case of that time.
CONCLUSION To sum up, then, I basically agree with Barry on two views: 1. Aristotelian ontology remains a viable option both in philosophy and in applied ontology. 2. The nature of time, namely that time passes, suggests that there is no overall unitary account of temporal reality, but that its description is fragmented into a succession of infinitely many presentist ontologies.
Mulligan, my other “Doktorvater.” However, I have to acknowledge his immense generosity and even tolerance for diverging views if their holder is capable of standing his or her ground. In this respect I sincerely recognize my personal debt to Barry, since without his support and opposition, I would not be the philosopher I am, however minor this status may be.
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3. The Aristotelian Ontological Square as a Four Category Ontology is complete insofar as it: a) accounts for the varieties of ordinary language attribution, b) can be validated in a formally rigorous manner, by showing how, starting from a feature-placing language as a fictional “degree zero” of ontology, a series of languages can be constructed, each resulting from its predecessor by the addition of terms referring to or ranging over a new category of entities, as well as of introduction/eliminationrules for existence claims regarding members of this category. Provided the reality of the flow of time is granted, even the totality of presentist ontologies or views on reality is incomplete in the sense that it cannot capture the passage of time. But the ineffable shows itself precisely where, pace Smith, ontology fails. Let me close on a personal note: at the beginning of this paper I have described Barry as a man of strongly held opinions. I may add that he defends this views in an uncompromising, sometimes formidable manner, especially if he fundamentally disagrees with his opponent(s)—in this respect he is only equaled or maybe even surpassed by Kevin
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My only minute claim to fame in the applied ontology community is the fact that I am the last-mentioned coauthor of the famous (2002) paper “Sweetening ontologies with DOLCE.” So called because of its iconographic representation which can already be found in Carolingian manuscripts of Boethius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Categories; cf. Dufour 2014. At least according to Porphyry’s Commentary (Busse 1887, pp. 22–79); cf. also Evangeliou 1996, pp. 51–53. In applied ontology, this view has been defended e.g. by Gary Merrill (2010). By calling the nexus between the terms a “non-relational tie,” one wishes to convey that it should not be reified as a relational universal. In a sense I turn Wiggins’ principle of sortal dependence (cf. his 2001, p. 56) upside down in order to single out the class of sortals. For variables over times, I shall ignore the complication of category superscripts. I shall ignore the complication of so-called “phasesortals”. These views are classically put forward in Prior’s works (cf. Fine 2005, p. 133). Note, however, that while this may be a reduction, it is not, by the very nature of the deflationist approach, an elimination. It should be pointed out that I beg to differ with Fine concerning the ontological commitment to times. It may be an irony that I have ended up admitting a position with which I used to differ viscerally while staying in Leipzig at Barry Smith’s IFOMIS.
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I first met Barry when he came to Manchester in 1973 as a postgraduate student to study for a PhD with Wolfe Mays, having completed his undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Mathematics at Oxford. I had then been studying philosophy for just two years, having transferred into the subject as a postgrad after getting my own BSc in Mathematics at Manchester. Wolfe was also my supervisor, more by default than choice, because I had started out being interested in existential philosophy, and he was the go-to person in Manchester for that. Barry had enjoyed the benefit of an Oxford undergraduate education: the most impressive of his teachers, he said, was Michael Dummett, whose first big Frege book was just out. I was a tyro by comparison. Wolfe was Barry’s deliberate choice as supervisor, because he was interested in Husserl and phenomenology, which was off the Oxford radar, and Wolfe as founder-editor of the Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology was Mr. Phenomenology in Britain at that time. From the start, it was obvious that Barry was possessed of two characteristics that have stayed with him ever since and marked his career: a strong passion for the things that interested him, including of course but not confined to philosophy, and an amazing capacity for sustained hard work at those things, which left the rest of us bobbing in his wake. When I say that neither I nor the third partner in our discussions and enterprises, Kevin Mulligan, is particularly slow or sparse in our production, this may give some idea of his
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enviable fecundity as a writer, and latterly, as an ontological entrepreneur. Barry is a native of Bury in Lancashire, a few miles north of Manchester, and on several occasions my wife Susan and I visited him in his house there. What I recall most vividly is the extent to which the house was dedicated to the storage of vast numbers of books. Bookshelves lined everywhere in the main room except doors and windows. When food or a bottle of wine was to be produced, books were moved and the required article brought out from behind them. We soon discovered our political differences: Barry was a Thatcherite, Susan and I were what he called ‘Guardian social democrats’—The Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) being then, as it has remained, a left-leaning quality daily. This discrepancy remains. Avoiding hard-left, hard-right, (and now hard-Brexit) views, I wobble around somewhere in what one might call, in analogy with chocolate, the Soft Center. We have long agreed to disagree about politics. Barry’s energy exhibited itself not only in his cycling from Bury to Manchester, but also in his annual estival philosophical pilgrimages about the continent of Europe. From these meetings he returned to Manchester with ideas and links from a range of places, most notably Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland. In Kraków he met the philosophercardinal-archbishop Karol Wojtyła, whom I recall him describing as “probably some sort of saint.” This was before the latter was elected to the papacy. When Wojtyła’s philosophy writings started to appear, we all decided he was a better pope than a philosopher; religious phenomenology was not for us. However, realistic phenomenology was. It was
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MOVING INTO CAREERS Barry’s PhD on reference in Frege and Husserl was a tour de force in bringing together these then rather disjunctively compared philosopher–mathematicians, and it brimmed over with interesting side-topics on such figures as Reinach, Ingarden, Schröder and Wittgenstein. It placed ontology solidly in the center of philosophy, and pulled me over from the philosophy of language into ontology. After my doctorate I was working in the university library in Manchester, while Barry got a research fellowship in Sheffield. I then got a lecturing job in Bolton, which involved much teaching with little time for research. By the later 1970s, the three of us were keen to keep our philosophical seminars going, so with the support of Barry’s padrone in Sheffield, Peter Nidditch, we set up an informal grouping we called the Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy, which from March 1977 for several years held themed meetings around the UK, and occasionally abroad. The meetings were sparsely funded and depended mainly on enthusiasm from the participants. Many of the more senior figures Barry had encountered on his peregrinations were rounded up as Honorary Presidents. The people we had as speakers included not just established figures, who seemed pleased to participate, but also other younger upwardly mobile philosophers, and many a lifelong friendship resulted. The doctrinal line of the SAGP was that scientific philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries did not coincide with analytic philosophy, important though that was, but included strands from Austria, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and occasionally elsewhere. By and large, that message has become available in print, although its reception remains patchy; this is especially true among analytic philosophers, whose knowledge of central European thought is often confined to Wittgenstein, himself standard by no measure. When Wolfe Mays retired as Reader in Manchester, Barry and I both applied for his position, and Barry got it. At the time I was put out, because Manchester was my home and I liked the eclectic mix of philosophies in the department. There was soon however a side-effect of the appointment which proved very advantageous for me. One of Barry’s Austrian acquaintances, Edgar Morscher, had just been appointed in 1979 as Full Professor (Ordinarius), which in the Austrian system brought two assistant positions with it. Edgar had Barry in mind for one, but Barry had just accepted Manchester and felt unable to let them down. Edgar turned at Barry’s suggestion to me: we had met in Manchester and Sheffield the previous year and had got on well. After tackBarry Smith and His Influence On (Not Only, But Mainly My) Philosophy
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Barry who evangelized in our circle for Roman Ingarden, one of Husserl’s most talented students, and the one who most vigorously opposed the latter’s lapse into transcendental idealism. Barry also admired and praised Adolf Reinach, the leader of the Munich and Göttingen realist phenomenologists, and, together with Kevin and also the late Karl Schuhmann, exerted considerable effort to get Reinach’s work edited, documented and more widely known. Together with Karl he also publicized the work of the real instigator of the phenomenological movement as a movement, the brilliant but dysfunctionally perfectionist Johannes Daubert. Through their tireless editorial work, much of it channeled through Munich’s Philosophia Verlag, many of the less well-known figures of realist phenomenology have been made more accessible, especially to the English-speaking philosophical world, and the same goes for other central European realists such as Anton Marty, Brentano’s most faithful student, and Christian von Ehrenfels, the father of Gestalt psychology. The most important connections Barry made in central Europe, at least for me, were in Austria. In Graz he met Rudolf Haller, whose conviction that philosophy in Austria had taken a different (and generally better) line of development than in Germany (especially the former Prussian part—Bavaria was less affected by Kant and post-Kantian philosophy) was championed before Haller by Otto Neurath and after him by Barry. Kevin had independently arrived at a similar opinion, and I was readily persuaded. The other important Austrian connection was Edgar Morscher in Salzburg, of whom more is below. Wolfe’s weekly seminars, which had always been fairly free-wheeling affairs, were turned by Barry, Kevin and myself into exercises in presentation and discussion on a wide range of topics, with no holds barred, and the three of us rather dominated proceedings. We were extremely direct and often rude in our criticisms of one another, which no doubt helped us to acquire thicker skins for the times ahead, to lend our discussions a direct style which has become moderately well-known in our circles, but also to align our views more closely. Even more than forty years later, we are able to predict one another’s views on more or less any philosophical topic, because they are nearly congruent and the few differences obvious.
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ing a visit to Salzburg onto the end of a summer trip to Italy (staying with Kevin and his wife) and Kirchberg-am-Wechsel (my first Wittgenstein Symposium—the fourth—Barry had been in on the second), I decided I’d like to try working in Austria and managed to persuade Susan to give up her work and come too. It was a huge change—and as it turned out, for my own work and career, massively advantageous. I learnt German, and got to know a whole new and partly alien set of institutions and practices, as well as enjoying the cultural and natural wonders of Salzburg city and its surroundings. Despite knowing about Austria and Austrian philosophy at arm’s length, I found the cultural shift involved challenging, but mostly very positive. Edgar became not only my Chef but also a close friend, and the department was outward-looking and welcoming. Employment conditions for foreigners were then not good: I had no permanent post and a lower salary than natives—this was before Austria joined the EU. Over the years, we slowly settled in: our children were born there, acquired both languages and went to school, and we made great friends. Teaching duties were modest, research was strongly supported and encouraged, the philosophers there, especially Paul Weingartner, had good connections, and the attractions of the city ensured a regular stream of good visitors. The stability of Austria at a time when Britain was undergoing socio-economic upheaval was welcome, and the position of the city in the centre of Europe facilitated easy travel to many philosophical destinations. In time I got my Habilitation and became an Austrian citizen, returning to Britain only in 1995. In the meantime, Barry, Kevin and I were co-operating at long range on several projects, including the large edited volume Parts and Moments, to which I contributed three essays on aspects of formal ontology on which I had been working since Manchester days. Kevin and Barry wrote a magnificent introductory essay, ‘Pieces of a Theory’, which is a marvel of historical acumen and philosophical wisdom, as are their later essays in The Foundations of Gestalt Theory. Following the 1982 Wittgenstein Symposium we three put together a joint paper, ‘Truth-Makers’, which was published in 1984 and helped to make that notion and the terminology (which we discovered had been invented independently by C. B. Martin) much more widely known and discussed. The term is new, but the notion is old: it is there in embryo in Aristotle (like so much else), is commonplace in medieval philosophy under the terminology of a proposition’s being verified for such and such items. Our immediate inspiration came from Husserl and Russell. (That one should be able without blushes to mention both in a conjunctive noun-phrase is part of VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
the ideology of the SAGP.) Nowadays, instant telecommunication and exchange of drafts by e-mail is taken for granted, but in those days it involved three-way postal exchanges, which took much longer. Since that time, while Kevin and Barry co-authored several papers, I have only been involved in one other triauthorial piece, our short 2006 ‘What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?’, whose strongly critical tone we would all not only maintain but amplify in the light of later developments. In regard to what one might call Bad Philosophy, Barry and Kevin hold strongly evangelical views, and they have studied specimens of it under the title ‘nosology’. My own practice has been less interventionist: when I encounter Bad Philosophy I tend to ignore it and get on with something else. Their practice is preferable, since it often helps to be told and shown why some things are bad, but I do support them from the sidelines. We all three signed the famous letter to The Times—drafted first by Barry—deploring Cambridge University’s decision to award an honorary doctorate to Jacques Derrida, and I still consider that opposition was right and justified. It helped the cause (but not the outcome) that we got famous names such as Quine, Armstrong, Marcus, Haller and Bocheński on board, all of whom have since sadly accompanied said Derrida into the Jenseits.
PHILOSOPHICAL CONGRUENCE IN BIG THINGS Many of the philosophical opinions that I hold most tenaciously derived from discussions with Barry and Kevin. Of these, perhaps the most important is our implacable opposition to any form of idealism, whether subjective, transcendental, or other. I was always inclined to realism, but being around philosophers of language can mysteriously undermine one’s robust sense of reality, especially if one spends too much time trying to piece together what the later Wittgenstein was driving at. Out and out idealists in the fashion of Berkeley are few (though I have known some), as are latter-day absolute idealists (I met one once), but responsibility for making a weaker, more insidious form of idealism acceptable, even normal, lies squarely with Kant, the philosopher who did more to ruin German-language philosophy than anyone before Heidegger, and whose influence will far outlast the latter. It is possible to write philosophy clearly, even beautifully, in German just as in other languages— Bolzano, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Frege and Reinach stand as examples—but Kant’s enormous presence made it accept-
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ious no doubt that their discipline would render itself redundant by merging into natural science. The concern to corral philosophy into a safe area beyond the reach of potential falsification or revision explains much of the appeal of transcendental idealism. To see that philosophers continue to have a negative, critical role, it suffices only to read some of the more puerile would-be philosophical statements of even great scientists. However, a more positive impression of the empirically answerable but non-capitulative systematizing and structuring role of good philosophy can be gained by examining the framework of formal ontology for scientific and everyday knowledge crafted by Barry Smith.
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able to write in tortuous sentences with poorly explained or inconsistent terminology, leaving those readers (the majority) who flounder in their attempts to understand the Master vaguely worried that it’s their fault for being insufficiently “deep” to appreciate the subtle points being made. That has led historically, as Barry has pointed out, to a plethora of commentary literature, which is far less prevalent in analytic than continental philosophy, with the notable exception again of Wittgenstein. While our early inspiration came from Ingarden and other realist phenomenologists, we later found agreement with such unabashed analytical realists as Herbert Hochberg and David Armstrong, and it was with great pleasure that we discovered the trenchant and witty dismissals of idealism by David Stove. Barry and I do not quite see eye to eye on matters ontological—he is a realist about universals while I (like Kevin) am a nominalist; Barry is more of an Aristotelian, while I am more of a Whiteheadian—though we do all agree that it is incumbent on the ontologist, no matter how revisionary, to effect a meeting with the language and beliefs of the average person as well as the practicing scientist. This does not mean accepting or adopting common sense wholesale, but it does mean the onus is on the revisionist to provide positive reasons to think commonsense beliefs and ordinary ways of speaking are wrong or defective. An area in which Barry has made this stance very much his own trademark is his work on the application of formal ontology to database ontologies, to the extent that I frequently find myself calling BFO not “Basic Formal Ontology” but “Barry’s Formal Ontology.” The amount of common sense that he has instilled into IT ontologies and their practitioners is inestimable and admirable. The work of clearing up the messes created by earlier conceptualist or idealist approaches to such ontologies has been very much in the mold of philosophical nosology. It is no wonder that BFO and other realist frameworks for ontologies, based on solid realist philosophical foundations, are proving ever more popular. Barry has consistently combined philosophical depth with a concern to reach out and interact constructively with experts in other disciplines such as geography and medicine, an attitude of which I heartily approve and that I have in a smaller way followed in relation to and collaboration with engineering. The idea of a philosopher anchored in an armchair, excogitating the structure of the universe a priori, is one which we both deride, and it would be otiose to need to mention that it has become obsolete since the scientific revolution, were it not that so many philosophers tenaciously hold on to that view or some variant of it, (wrongly) anx-
Barry Smith and His Influence On (Not Only, But Mainly My) Philosophy
The Liar, the Truth-Teller, and Barry Smith WOJCIECH ŻEŁANIEC Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism University of Gdańsk ul. Bażyńskiego 4 80-952 Gdańsk Poland Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.wnswz.strony.ug.edu.pl
Keywords: Barry Smith, ontology, Liar, Truth-Teller, truth makers, truth bearers, synthetic a priori
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I think that one of the most valuable things that I learnt from Barry Smith, perhaps by a kind of osmosis, was a particular form of naivety. It is strange to say that one has learnt naivety, because we normally think that naivety stops where learning begins. But what I mean is a feeling of epistemological innocence in trusting one’s common, or even not so common, sense and in taking whatever presents itself to one as a self-evident truth at face-value (while bearing in mind that this is just a fallibilistic self-evidence). I do not wish to suggest that this is a position of Barry’s, but this is a position I worked out for myself on the basis of what Barry passed on to me: philosophers should be sometimes more naive than they are and are sometimes more naive than they should be. The challenge is to be naive at the right moment and place. Here is an example, which I once again should like to stress is not to be regarded as Smithesque but which I would not have thought up (and still less thought out) had it not been for him. These two sentences: “This sentence is false” (the Liar) and “this sentence is true” (the Truth-Teller)1 give rise to well-known difficulties. The Liar is, or at least appears, paradoxical: supposing it is true it comes out false and the other way ‘round. The Truth-Teller is not obviously paradoxical, because no contradiction seems to follow from the hypothesis that it is true: If it is true, it is true, and if it is not, then it is not, and that is it. Yet, some philosophers have found the Truth-Teller paradoxical, too (see e.g. Woleński 1993; Billon 2014). I must say that I sincerely admire the ingenuity (and the non-ingenuousness) with which the philosophers who have taken either sentence seriously attempted to disarm or explain away the (alleged) paradox. VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
And ingenuity does not always mean complexity: Joseph W. Smith once formulated an astonishingly simple proof that the Truth-Teller was true (Smith 1984), which I, too, find convincing—except for the initial presupposition that “one is prepared to take the self-referential ascriptions of falsity [or truth] of a sentence such as the liar sentence […] [or the Truth-Teller or their ilk] at all seriously” (p. 219). I am not prepared to do so and I can’t imagine how I ever could. And the problem is that I, as distinct from Barry, am rather shortbreathed when it comes to arguing from (what I consider) patently absurd premises, adopted just “for the sake of argument.” The problem, as I see it, is that both the Liar and the TruthTeller are poor candidates to the title of genuine truth-bearers. Barry roused my interest in the issue of truth-makers (Mulligan, Simons and Smith 1984; Simon and Smith 2007) but starting from this I developed mine own for truth-bearers. Primary truth-bearers are, this is my position, not sentences as linguistic expressions but thoughts, some of which are sometimes expressed in linguistic expressions. Sentences as linguistic expressions have no intrinsic intentionality and for this reason they cannot be primary bearers of truth-values (although they may have a truth-value secondarily, as expressions of a thought). If you don’t have any Thai, then “กุหลาบแดง” or “kuh̄lāb dæng” is bound to remain inarticulate gibberish to you. Now as Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, a Polish philosopher from the once famous Lemberg-Warsaw school, put it: A thought (myśl) is true if and only if it represents things as being thus and so, in the ontological domain in which the thought places them,2 and things are thus
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As regards the Liar, a current challenge for the “gapper” like myself, i.e. one who thinks that the Liar (does not express a thought and for this reason) has no truth-value at all (Goldstein 2000; Żełaniec 2013) is presented in the form of the so-called Revenge Liar, which, in its most basic form, runs like this: (1) (1) is not true. Avenger: you say that (1) lacks truth-value; thus, you will admit that it is not true, won’t you? Me: There is a difference between “s is not true” in the sense “s is false” and “s is not true” in the sense “it is not the case that s is true (because s has no truth-value at all)”4 but OK, I grant you the point and assert hereby: (1) is not true. Avenger: So you also concede that “(1) is not true” is true? Me: I do: “(1) is not true” is true. Avenger: Now, “(1)” and “ ‘(1) is not true’ ” are two names of the same thing, namely (1), aren’t they? Me: Depends, but go on! Avenger: Well, you said just now that “(1) is not true” was true, so substituting synonyms for synonyms you’d get “(1) is true,” thereby contradicting yourself. The Liar has been avenged! Such mishaps accrue to those who are excessively fixated on expressions as material beings.5 The expression “ ‘(1) is not true’ ” is, qua (a type of) material entity, the very same expression wherever it crops up, just as “amor matris” is the same expression regardless of whether it is used in the sense of “love for the mother” (an objective genetive) or in that of “love of the mother (for her child or children)” (a subjective genetive). But exactly like “amor matris”, “ ‘(1) is not true’ ” can be used in two different senses: once as another name of (1), another time as the name of a sentence expressing the thought that (1) (does not express a thought and for this reason) is not true (or false). The Avenger, urging that “(1)” and “‘(1) is not true’ ” are two names of the same thing, uses the latter expression in the first sense. I, by contrast, when I use “ ‘(1) is not true’ ” in the subject position in the sentence printed in italics above, use it in the second sense, that is, as a name of a sentence which is homographic with (1), but not identical with (1); the latter does not express a thought, The Liar, the Truth-Teller, and Barry Smith
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and so (Ajdukiewicz 1983, p. 39). Which thought does then the Truth-Teller (the easier case) express? Going by the linguistic meanings of its constituent expressions and its grammar, it expresses the thought that the thought it expresses represents the things (i.e. itself) as being the way they really are. For this to make (more than just linguistic) sense, or to express a thought, while thinking the thought that the Truth-Teller allegedly expresses you’d have to think about that very thought itself—which appears impossible—but, to boot, you’d have to think about it as representing things the way they are. But what way does the Truth-Teller represent things (i.e., itself) as being? Well, as representing things the way they are, and so forth. Our thought, in a desperate attempt to constitute itself, just can’t go beyond this inchoative stage. This is what I here mean by “not expressing a thought.” Let’s compare the Truth-Teller with a sentence seemingly even more absurd than it: “The inhabitants of planet Tephlonia worship the good god Elvis” (an example coined by Barry). “This [i.e. the one just read] sentence is true, take my word for it.” All right, let’s discuss it. For all its weirdness, the sentence does represent things as being thus and so, i.e. (and here we are transcending the assortment of words employed in the sentence itself 3) as involving temples, rituals, processions dedicated to Elvis, bowings, genuflections, prostrations in front of Elvis’ statues, or equivalent (in the widest possible sense) behaviour, or maybe Tephlonians’ inward acts, sorts of orationes iaculatoriae, or perhaps studying some Elvisian holy books. I am not saying that the sentence in question can be verified by such findings, yet their contemplation gets us one step forward to establishing the sentence’s truth-value; it is in the direction of such examples that we have to grope, trying to find out whether the sentence is true, and this will keep us busy for a long time. Should we find out that there is no Tephlonia, to start with, we would still vaguely know what would have had (not) to be the case on it if it had existed for the sentence to have a truth-value, and the sentence would have no truth-value yet express a thought all the same, even if a merely hypothetical one. In the case of the Truth-Teller, by contrast, we can find no such considerations, as there is in it, when it comes to representing things as being thus and so, no hint as to what that “thus and so” could be like. The Truth-Teller, aside from the challenge of thinking about the very thought one is now thinking, says only “things are as I am saying they are, that is, they are the way I am saying they are, that is, they are in the manner I am representing them as being, that is… .” This gets us absolutely no forr’arder.
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while the former expresses the thought that (1) does not express any. Suppose, to make the above consideration clearer by means of an analogy, that “(1)” and “ ‘(1) is not true’ ” were two names of an object which quite obviously and indisputably was neither true nor false, for instance, a chair. Then, the reasoning just proposed by the Avenger would no less seem to go through. I should say: “(1) is not true” (meaning: the chair called “(1)” is not true), and pressed by the Avenger I should concede that that commits me to saying “ ‘(1) is not true’ is true,” and then the Avenger, using the fact that the expression “ ‘(1) is not true’,” which fills the subject position in the sentence I have just asserted, is also a name of the chair, would exclaim: Ah, so you are admitting that (1) is true after all! But this is wrong, because while saying “ ‘(1) is not true’ is true” I was not speaking of the chair (I was not using a name of the chair as the subject expression in the sentence that I asserted) but of a sentence (which was such that, unfelicitously and misleadingly, its standard name is homographic with one of the chair’s names) expressing the thought that the chair was not true. The expression I employed was a kind of shorthand for: “The sentence ‘the chair called “(1)” is not true’ is true” so that the step to “(1) is true” by dint of the homography of names is not possible, simply because there are no homographic names here. Similarly, in our case, in saying “ ‘(1) is not true’ is true” (the sentence printed in italics above) I am really saying just “The sentence ‘the inscription called by the Avenger “(1)” is not true’ is true” so that no homography is produced and no contradiction follows. Much of contemporary philosophy, due to its prevalent naive materialism, has no conceptual slot available for the concept of different, but yet perfectly homographic sentences (unless by endowing their constituent words with different meanings or by exploiting a syntactic ambiguity), without which the above reasoning makes little sense. Again, I do not want to suggest that Barry would have accepted the above reasoning or its conclusions, although I hope that he would, nor do I intend to gauge the extent to which he accepts or rejects the premises of contemporary materialism (in semantics and philosophy of mind). I remember, however, from th’ olden days when I knew him, that he would wage war on all philosophical schools which he suspected, rightly or wrongly, of empty verbalism and rhetorical seductiveness. Now the above considerations on the Liar and its ilk are not meant, at least not by myself, to remain an exercise in academic shadow-boxing, but they are meant as serious work towards finding tools and means of testing all kinds of disVOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
course for having or not much content in terms of assertible thoughts. As Barry made me see, by the above-mentioned wars he waged, in the time I worked for him, there is deplorably much discourse—in politics, advertisement, morals, economics, and other social sciences, “life-styles,” religion and much elsewhere, including, yes, philosophy—that is less than the Liar or the Truth-Teller obviously, but no less truly, thought-free, all the while being linguistically correct or even attractive, nice-sounding, spellbinding (though not exactly the way in which Keats has been said to have been a spellbinder6). One of the most important social tasks, an enlightening task, of philosophy is to debunk this “fashionable nonsense,”7 which, while not quite as evil as the Hobbesian Kingdom of Darkness, is no less demoralising and destructive. I am sure this was Barry’s position and Barry has accomplished very much with regard to that task, and it is to be hoped that he will still accomplish much more. I owe also to Barry the lasting or at least long-time interest in various issues and philosophical areas, such as the early Göttingen phenomenology, especially Adolf Reinach; among the former I would mention, first of all, the issue of the synthetic a priori (in the Husserlian sense rather than in the original Kantian) to which I devoted a few publications (the latest one is Żełaniec 2013), one of them co-authored with Barry (Smith and Żełaniec 2012). The idea was that synthetic a priori judgments/sentences/propositions connect always two or more8 non-logical concepts in such a way that it is enough to have an ever-so-fleeting familiarity with both of them to (believe to) see that the judgment in question is true. For instance (this is an example from Reinach): every promise gives rise to a claim and an obligation, mutually correlated. It would be protested, perhaps, that this proposition is purely analytic, yet a convincing proof that it is has not so far been forthcoming, and I have argued (Zelaniec 1992) that it would be harder to produce, should anyone take up this task seriously, than one would suppose. Although I do not in the least wish to pretend that Barry was in any way responsible for it, yet I cannot help feeling that I in part under his influence grew weary of the tendency of some philosophers to let the matter rest at mere assertions that something can be done, and not to move on to actually doing the thing. A given judgment is analytic, for instance, that is (I am presupposing here the Fregean sense of “analytic”): it can be reduced to a tautology on the strength of the definitions of its constituent expressions; well then, let’s try to actually carry out the reduction, won’t you, let’s find the suitable definitions first, all the while making sure that they do not rely, for their correctness, on the judgment in ques-
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in Thai, both were “กุหลาบแดง” (“kuh̄lāb dæng” in Latin characters, literally: rose red). This is rather strange, because most languages do make this elementary distinction,13 but Thai, hardly a “primitive dialect,” does not. “They certainly utter it with a different voice inflection, depending on whether they mean to say ‘the rose is red’ or ‘the red rose,’ ” Barry kept asserting intransigently, and I could scarcely suppress a certain internal chuckle at his hard-headedness. Much later I realised he might have been right, even if he was factually wrong as far as the Thai-speaking community is concerned: you can utter the same expression and express two different thoughts by it, or once express a thought and another time not express any. Much of my argumentation against the Truth Teller above depended on that possibility for its persuasiveness, if it had any. With regard to languages and language as such, Barry is, in my memory, extraordinarily gifted and sensitive. He spoke very good German, so he could hold a lecture on a complex philosophical topic in that language freely, i.e. not by reading it off a script, and he could read in a few other languages. He also was eager to pick up various phrases and expressions in every language he came into contact with. He would play small practical jokes on people by throwing in bits like “yes, that’s true” in a conversation in a foreign language in that language, in his charming way, very much to the amusement of the interlocutors. I sometimes try to imitate him at the University of Gdańsk, where I teach and where there are many students from Spain, in that I, passing by a group of such students, quickly remark “no, no es verdad lo que dice” (no, it’s not true what s/he is saying), but not exactly with the Barryesque effects. Yet Barry was, first of all, extremely, but also to a large extent self-ironically, proud of his native idiom, and would often say “English is language par excellence,” whatever this was supposed to mean. When I teased him with John Skelton’s observation (16th century) that: Our natural tongue is rude And hard to be ennewed […] Our language is so rusty So cankered, and so full Of frowards, and so dull […] I wot [know] not where to fynde Terms to serve my mynde Barry responded with a variation on Pope: Our language and its wealth lay hid in night; God said, “Let Shakespeare be!” and all was light. The Liar, the Truth-Teller, and Barry Smith
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tion itself. For while definitions cannot be true or false, yet they can be correct or not, in the sense of correctly rendering the common usage. If someone, then, suggests that it is part of the definition of a promise that a promise gives rise to a claim and an obligation, then let him tell us whether he thinks a normal English speaker, following common usage, would refuse to call a promise an act that happens to be exactly like a promise yet fails to give raise either to any claim or any obligation or both.9 “The question is quite pointless, as there are no such acts”10 is a likely answer. No sir, there are no such acts, because … well … because not only does every promise give rise to a claim and an obligation, mutually correlated,11 but also the claim-and-obligation-generating property cannot be removed from the concept of a promise arbitrarily.12 At least not in such a way as to make appear worth answering the question of an anticipated reaction of an English speaker to an instance of the concept so tampered with. Pressing such questions, and in general, insisting too much on the difference between “in principle feasible” and “actually done” does not gain you much popularity with most philosophers, but Barry did it with a special, and rare, unsurpassable charm. In this or a similar fashion would I argue in favour of the somewhat old-fashioned category of the synthetic a priori. In line with Barry, I would call it a fallibilist conception of the a priori. That is to say, we should treat judgments synthetic a priori as very well-founded but still “only” hypotheses, and not forget that one day we might encounter facts or entities that plainly contradict them, however unbelievable this might sound to us at the present moment. Yet still, for the sentence “there is no colour that appears as intermediate between red and green as orange appears intermediate between yellow and red,” which looks like a good candidate for the title of “synthetic a priori,” empirical data interpretable as convincing counter-evidence seems to have been found (Crane and Piantanida 1983). It would be tempting to compare this theoretical fallibilism with Barry’s personal one, and as a person Barry (as I knew him) was not always very easy to convince that any of his favourite a priori beliefs might after all not fit the facts so well. “All the worse for the facts,” one seemed sometimes on the verge of hearing him say in the Hegelian (if such it really be) vein. But sometimes he was right to be stubborn. I remember a longish discussion with him on states of affairs (another topic of his in which he roused my interest), in which I argued, against Reinach championed by Barry (Smith 1987, p. 201f.) that not all languages knew the difference between a sentence (“the rose is red”) and a nominal group (“the red rose”); for instance
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One evening in the mid-nineties Barry “threw a party” (a favourite locution of his) at his home; in the middle of a conversation a non-Anglophone guest at the party said that he had never “shaked” hands with a Mr. So-and-So. In response, Barry said: “shook,” in a solemn, teacher-like tone of voice. A few minutes later Barry was telling his guests how skillful he was as a cook and asserted of a cake: “I baked it myself.” In this moment, I cut in and said in an equally solemn tone of voice: “book.”14 That was my “revenge,” for which I did not fail to harvest amusement. I sometimes teased Barry’s pride of his “natural tongue” beyond due measure—which he bore with apparently unshakeable stoicism—confronting him with various seemingly absurd properties of English. Here is an example. This may not be obvious to many or most Anglophone readers, but in most languages that are “par less-than-excellence” words are derivable from one another in a regular fashion. For instance, in Polish “wilk” means “wolf,” while “wilczy” means “lupine,” similarly “kot” – “koci” (“cat” – “feline”), and so on. In English, by contrast, the adjective is Latinate, while the substantive is Saxon, and they are not derived from one another, meaning apart. So I once collected a number of such pairs and asked Barry if it was linguistically correct to call the thesis defended by a Dr. Hare a “Leporine thesis,” or a playful invention by a Winola Cat a “Feline invention,” or the conjecture by a Prof. Ben Seal a “Phocine conjecture,” or the assertion by a Frederic Gander-Goose an “Anserine assertion,” or the explanation by a Jane Peacocke a “Pavonine explanation,” or the transgression perpetrated by a Herbert Elk an “Alcine transgression,” or the advance achieved by a Donald D. Duck an “Anatine advance,” or the theory formulated by a Dr. Grail Oxe a “Bovine theory” (and a number of others)—to which Barry responded with a note of stoic resignation: “I am very sorry but none of these would really work in English.” Fair enough. Barry was, too, very good at coining humorous sayings that exploited various hidden meanings of familiar words. As he was regarded by many of his students and acquaintances (non-native speakers of English) as an authority on “language par excellence,” he was often asked various questions on that language. For instance, once he was asked whether, given that there were the verbs “to overwhelm” and “to underwhelm” (a recent coinage), there existed in English a verb like “to whelm.” His answer: “Certainly. I whelm myself every day just to the right extent, otherwise I’d be seriously underwhelmed.” I have no doubt that Barry keeps whelming himself just to the right extent, I hope, whatever that means.15 Another example, this time of Barry’s literVOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
ary wit, was his “Old Nordic Saying,” which I have passed on to many of my students: “To have history without ideas is blind; to have ideas without history is American” (Smith 1984, p. 311). Another striking feature of Barry’s, noticed not just by me, was his being blessed with an intense emotional attachment to his mother-country England and to things English. As he once quoted a medieval work, perhaps Confessio amantis by John Gower (1330–1408), as (according to its author) “A bok for Engelondes sake,” it suddenly occurred to me that practically every work by Barry could be thus entitled. Only later, as I came to know him better, did I realise that Barry’s relation to England was not as unproblematic as all that (due to the class-ridden structure of the English society); yet most of the time, it is true, one had the impression of hearing the last stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s “Home return” in the background: If England was what England seems, An’ not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an’ paint, ’Ow quick we’d chuck ’er! But she ain’t! and one felt like asking “but isn’t she really?” Well, this is a sore point, but the last time I talked to Barry about such issues I no longer had the impression that, in his eyes, she wasn’t. And yet, Barry would say “we” in some contexts, such as “we conquered India,” “we ruled half a world,” “we’ve become wimps since WWII” and similar. In imitation, I also took to saying “we” with reference to Poland (“we got partitioned between Germany and Russia in 1939”), for a stretch of time. For some reason that escapes me now, I once gave Barry a computer file with the famous Nelsonian phrase “England expects that every man will do his duty” printed umpteen times over in different fonts; some time later, paying him a short visit at his place, I discovered that he had printed that out and attached it to the wall in front of his desk. Would he have done so if the text had read “L’ Angleterre est une nation de marchands” or even “The more he looked inside, the more Piglet wasn’t there”? Hardly conceivable… I also remember that Barry was sometimes, if very seldom, rather stern and tough on us non-native speakers of English with regard to certain words and locutions which he thought only English poets were authorised to employ. In my case the “sacrilege” consisted of using somewhere in writing the verb “to asseverate” with reference to philosophers who solemnly affirm, but little more than just affirm, that something can
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NOTES 1 Sometimes called the “Veridic.” See (Żełaniec 2013). 2 This proviso by Roman Ingarden (Ingarden 1985, p. 143) is meant to help to deal with such truths as that Polyphemus was blinded by Ulysses. 3 An inability to paraphrase a sentence in quite different words is an almost sure sign that the sentence expresses no thought, at least to the speaker. See e.g. Plato’s Gorgias, where Callicles is unable to explain the crucial difference between “better” and “stronger” and his clumsy efforts are commented upon by Socrates thus: “Ὁρᾷς ἄρα ὅτι σὺ αὐτὸς ὀνόματα λέγεις, δηλοῖς δὲ οὐδέν;” (”So you see, you are uttering mere words yourself, and explaining nothing,” tr. by W.R.M. Lamb 489e). Or this passage from Hume on efforts to define causality: “Motion in one body is regarded upon impulse as the cause of motion in another. When we consider these objects […], we find only that the one body approaches the other; and that the motion of it precedes that of the other, but without any sensible interval. […] We can go no farther in considering this particular instance. […] Shou’d any one leave this instance, and pretend to define a cause, by saying it is something productive of another, it is evident he wou’d say nothing. For what does he mean by production? Can he give any definition of it, that will not be the same with that of causation? If he can; I desire it may be produced. If he cannot; he here runs in a circle, and gives a synonymous term instead of a definition.” (Treatise, bk. I, pt. III, sect. II). “To say and to say nothing” or “to provide synonyms instead of a [not merely verbal] definition” is, so I should understand it, to speak and yet express no thoughts. 4 The latter is sometimes called the wide-scope negation, see (Horn 2001, p. 226; Brandtler 2006, p. 183). 5 As Hume’s theologians were not, since they “clearly perceived, that the external form of words, being mere sound, require an intention to make them have any efficacy; and that this intention being once considered as a requisite circumstance, its absence must equally prevent the effect” (Treatise, bk. III, pt. II, sect. V). But they, presumably, were no materialists. 6 Cf. these surprisingly highly relevant remarks on style: “Does [the given] writer make me more keenly conscious […] both of what he is saying and of the events and significance of my daily life? Do I see the world in clearer details after reading him? Or does he just give
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be done or demonstrated. Years later, when I told the story to another British person the reaction was: “What a funny story about your boss! No right to use certain words? LOL!” LOL indeed but, yet, I am proud of having had a “boss” like that: English may or may not be “language par excellence,” but language is a very valuable tool, and those insufficiently competent should not be left meddling with language unattended. I do not know if Heidegger was right in calling man the herdsman of being, but Barry was and I am sure continues being a brilliant and skillful herdsman of Language (par excellence). More personally, the Barry I know is a very generous, resourceful, efficiently helpful and (at the same time) modest man. Even when reporting his many brilliant successes, he would never be boastful, arrogant, or presumptuous. There is a consistent streak of self-irony, or perhaps of not taking himself too seriously, present in everything he ever says about himself or quoted as said about himself by somebody else. Last but not least, he has always been helpful to others in a practical sense, not just in the sense of giving moral support. He has always read and extensively commented on draft manuscripts (even those that were not really worth his time) by his students, assistants, and colleagues, providing them with oftentimes caustic (“learn how to use a word-processor”) but mostly very just remarks. He has also readily engaged in serious philosophical discussion even with persons who are by far not his match. Barry’s practical generosity has been also demonstrated in his very efficient and reliable replies to letters and emails. He responds almost immediately, and always very much to the point and constructively. For this reason, a colleague of mine called him once a “philosopher businessman” in good-willed banter. However, while efficiency and reliability certainly are important traits of good businessmen, Barry is not, as I know him, a businessman in a very important sense. That is, Barry has never tried, for aught I know, to “sell” to anybody ideas he did not himself believe in, only to personally profit from another person’s being persuaded by his truly formidable eloquence. There has always been something of a secular missionary (but not a peddlar) about Barry, yet a missionary passionately believing in his cause16 (whether Aristotelianism in philosophy or Free Market Liberalism in economics), and sincerely convinced its adoption is in everybody’s, not just his, best interest.
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me a drowsy feeling in which musical noises agreeably peal and reverberate? It is interesting to note that the older English writers never did merely this. Even great masters of the ornate style like Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor have a hard core of meaning which keeps the reader constantly alert. It is only with the nineteenth century that the professional spellbinders appear: Coleridge, Keats, much of Shelley, Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris, Fletcher […]” (Blackstone 1954, p. 270), a good description of what expressing a thought as distinct from merely spellbinding by “musical noises” can be like. For an interpretation of difficult thoughts contained in Euclid’s Elements see (Reed 1990). Sokal and Bricmont 1998. This is as a rule less spellbinding and less musical. In (Smith 1996) Barry mentions just the concept of being a part of … . The second one is the second-order concept of being transitive. Just as he would deny the name of a brother to everyone who were someone’s sibling but not a male one. There seem to be such acts, to be sure, such as e.g. “promises” given while intoxicated and the like, but as long as we consider them promises we normally think they do generate a claim and an obligation, and if we discover they are no promises after all, we do it not just by seeing that they have not generated a claim or an obligation. Attention: while our original synthetic a priori judgment could have been understood as possibly vacuously true (i.e. if there had not been any promises) this last sentence must not be so understood: there are acts that look exactly like promises and … lo and behold, all of them generate claims and obligations. To make this clear it is apposite to formulate our original judgment as a conditional: “If as a matter of empirical fact an instance of the kind promise occurs, then there begin to exist enduring states of claim and obligation” (Smith 1987, p. 191). By contrast, it is very much possible to separate the property of being male from the property of being a sibling, without changing anything about the latter. For instance, in Russian “rose red” is the sentence, while “red rose” is the nominal group. As a matter of fact, in German, a sister language of English, the old past tense “buk”, of “backen”, to bake, still survives, even if reputed old-fashioned. As a matter of actual fact, “to whelm” once existed and meant “to overturn”, “to capsize” (of a vessel); “over-” in “overwhelm” is just an intensifier. The current meaning “overcome” is figurative.
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16 I sometimes heard him quote the Hussite slogan “Veritas praevalebit” or “the truth will prevail” with reference to one of his causes.
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Necessity and Truth Makers JAN WOLEŃSKI Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego ul. Gołębia 24 31-007 Kraków Poland Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.filozofia.uj.edu.pl/jan-wolenski
Keywords: Barry Smith, logic, formal ontology, truth makers, semantic theory of truth, Polish analytic philosophy
In genuine observance of logical order and good philosophical fashion, then, I shall start my examination with some clarifications. First of all, I do not belong to the advocates of the theory of truth-makers. More precisely, I favor the semantic theory of truth (see Woleński 2014) and Tarski’s truth-definition over defining the concept of truth via truth-makers. Eventually, truth-making may be used in explaining the criteria of truth, but I shall skip this here. Nonetheless, I will not argue against ‘truth-makerism’ as a general account of how the concept of truth should be defined. In other words, I am interested in internal problems of Truth-Maker Theory (hereinafter TMT). My only task here consists in analyzing the consequences of seeing truth-makers via the idea that they necessitate truth. The view that truth-makers necessitate truth of sentences—e.g., statements, propositions, judgments, etc.—has many advocates in contemporary discussions (see Smith 1999; Armstrong 2004; Merricks 2007).1 On the other hand, the idea of truth-making as a necessary nexus does not occur in the seminal paper (see Mulligan, Simons, and Smith 1984), which opened the present debate about truth-makers. A fundamental intuition in regard to the truth-making relation is captured by (1) A truth-bearer is true if and only if it has a truth-maker. In a formal language (see Rami 2009, p. 3), (1) as the truth-maker principle can by expressed by
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I met Barry for the first time at the Ingarden Symposium held in Cracow in 1984. We both co-chaired the session in formal ontology. At the beginning, Barry said that formal ontology must be done in military order. He meant that everything must be done on time. However, I prefer to replace the term ‘military’ with the term ‘logical’ because I believe that formal ontology must be done according to logical order. It is not only possible but, I dare say, it is quite certain that Barry’s understanding of logic is different than mine. In light of this difference, I recognize that I have a challenging task ahead since I have chosen to address ‘truth makers’ here as my celebratory contribution for Barry’s Festschrift. I hope that he will be tolerant with respect to my formalist attitude, at least to some respect. I rather follow a Polish imperative to understand logic in a restrictive sense, that is, formal in the traditional sense. Thus, I should add that my analysis in this paper follows the Polish analytic tradition. I know very well that Barry has always shown great respect for Polish analytic philosophy as a sound mode of philosophizing. But I also know that he would object to my identifying the philosophy in Poland as Polish analytic philosophy because, to him, good philosophy is not characterized by national idiosyncrasies. He used to say, “There is no such thing as Polish philosophy; it is just good philosophy.” His point was that to qualify analytic philosophy with the term ‘Polish’ renders the phrase ambiguous: it could refer to a particular national philosophy or to good philosophy done in Poland. If the latter, then there is no need to say anything other than ‘good philosophy.’
(2) For every A, A is true if and only if there is a y such that y is a truth maker for A. In symbols: ∀A(Tr(A) ⇔ $yTrMkA(y)). Yet I consider (2) as less convenient for analysis than its conversion into something similar to the T-scheme, namely2 (3) Every instance of the scheme (*) Tr(A) ⇔ $yTrMkA(y) is a theorem of TMT (truthmakers theory)
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Now, the problem here is whether the necessity parameter must be introduced into (*). The truth-maker necessarists— i.e., those who believe that truth-making is just necessary— reply “Yes” and propose various ways in order to justify this strong claim. I will examine this claim by using modal logic. I would like to recognize at this juncture that, in the foregoing, I have entirely neglected to address the nature of truth-makers as well as the problem of whether (2) suffices for developing a full-blooded theory of truth-makers. I only assume that they are things of a sort without deciding whether they are mereological or set-theoretical entities, and without considering additional constraints such as the principle of projection proposed by Barry Smith (see Smith 1999). Furthermore, I assume that modal logic—in fact, very elementary principles of modality—can be applied to TMT independently of the ontological status of truth-makers. This assumption is commonly shared by many truth-maker theorists, including Barry Smith, who says (see Smith 1999, p. 277) that he uses modal logic “in the vicinity of S4.” All propositional functors, that is, negation, implication, etc., have the classical truth-functional interpretation.3 The simplest way to cope with the problem is to split (3) into (4)
(a) Tr(A) ⇒ $yTrMkA(y). (b) $yTrMkA(y)⇒ Tr(A).
Now (4a) states that Tr(A) is the sufficient condition for $yTrMkA(y))—i.e., being true is sufficient for the existence of a truth-maker—but (4b) considers $yTrMkA(y) as the necessary condition for Tr(A). One could even say that (4b) nicely captures the significant sense in which truth-making just necessitates truth itself. However, we can easily see that this account appears as artificial and too poor for necessarianism. Another possibility is to change the succession in (3) in order to obtain its equivalent, that is VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
(5) $yTrMkA(y)⇔ Tr(A). Under this move, Tr(A) is necessary for $yTrMkA(y), but the latter is sufficient for the former. Clearly, (4) and (5) make the entire problem trivial because both $yTrMkA(y) and Tr(A) mutually co-necessitate and co-suffice. It is not surprising that this situation is caused by (3). This constraint claims (6) TMT ⊦ (or ⊦TMT) Tr(A) ⇔ $yTrMkA(y), for any A. This means that instances of (*) are theorems. Assuming that we have sufficient deductive resources, for instance the ω-rule, we can even say that the formula “A(Tr(A) ⇔ $yTrMkA(y)) is provable in TMT. We can draw some lessons come from the foregoing elementary observations. The first is that necessary and sufficient conditions can be reversed. The explanation is as follows. If a given theory Th proves the formula A ⇔ B (in symbols, Th ⊦ (A ⇔ B)), the way of structuring necessary and sufficient conditions is conventional to some extent. Basically, proving the formula of the type A ⇔ B requires to demonstrate two implications, namely A ⇒ B (the sufficient condition) and B ⇒ A (the necessary condition). Secondly, one might eventually say that (*) is TMTnecessary or TMT-analytic. Staying with necessity as more relevant in the present context than is analyticity, we should examine which kind of necessity is involved in the discussed issue. Clearly, (*) is not a tautology, similarly as T-scheme (see Woleński 2008). Hence, if we agree to speak about TMT-necessity, it is of a conditional character. In other words, TMT-necessity (and eventually, other modalities) are not logical. I will return to this below. Thirdly, since according to the principles of propositional calculus, we can decompose (*) into the disjunctive formula (**) Tr(A) ⋀ $yTrMkA(y)¬ Tr(A) ⋀ $yTrMkA(y), the following question arises: whether or not ‘being nottrue’ and ‘being false’ are actually equivalent predicates. The above considerations suggest that a weakening of (*) to (4b) actually helps in analyzing at least some aspects of introducing necessity into the logico-philosophical business of truth-making. Thus, we should consider how embed the sign of necessity into the formula $yTrMkA(y)⇒ Tr(A). I begin with a proposal of Trenton Merricks.4 He writes:
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Let me try to formalize this definition. It can be done, by the formula (and I slightly change letters according to my notational conventions; the symbol Nec stands for ‘necessitates’). (7) ∀y∀A(Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) Nec Tr(A)). I take the word ‘only’ as indicating that the formula ⇒should precede the expression Tr(A), I render ‘mere existence’ by ‘y exists’ (I skip the problem of the status of this expression; one can consider it as a special predicate), and ‘metaphysically sufficient’ by ‘y belongs to truth-makers of A’ without entering into various questions concerning metaphysical grounding or dependence. Merricks (2007) adds: Understood as a necessary condition for making true, necessitarianism is now truthmaker orthodoxy. […]. Let conditional necessitarianism be the denial of necessarianism conjoined with the claim that for all x and p, if x is a truthmaker for p, then, necessarily, if both x and p exist, then p is true. […]. Conditional necessarianism is equivalent to the claim that if x is truthmaker for p, then it is impossible that x exists and p have a truth-value other than true (or lacks truth-value altogether).5 The first sentence of the last quotation has to be corrected. Independently of what is necessarianism and how this view can or should be understood, it cannot be identified with functioning as a necessary condition that truth-makers produce truth of truth-bearers. It is clear that necessarianism proposes how to define the necessary constraint for the relation of making true, for instance, by (7) saying that the existence of a truth-maker y necessitates that a proposition A is true. How to formalize the conditional necessarianism? First, it has the denial of (7) as its component. Thus, we have the following sequence of formulas: (8) (a) ¬ (∀y∀A(Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) Nec Tr(A)); (b) ¬ $y ¬ ∀A(Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) Nec Tr(A)); (c) ¬ $y ¬ $A ¬ ( Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) Nec Tr(A));
(d) ¬ ( Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) Nec Tr(A)) ???
The steps from (8)(a) to (8)(c) are justified by simple rules for negating quantifiers in the classical first-order logic. Why does question marks occurs in the assertion (8)(d)? The problem refers to the place in which the sign of negation should occur as related to Nec (for simplicity, I dropped quantifiers in (8)(d)). For convenience, let the box □ stand for Nec. The first possibility is to convert the problematic (8d) to (9) Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⋀ ¬ □Tr(A), saying that ¬ (7) means three things: (a) that an item exists; (b) it belongs to truth-makers of A, and (c) it is still not necessary that A is true. The second possibility consists in adopting the formula (10) (Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⋀ □ ¬ Tr(A), as the denial of (7). However, one could observe that (11) ¬ □(Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⋀ Tr(A)), (12) □ ¬ ((Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⋀ Tr(A)), better fit logical intuitions of denying (7), but (12) appears as much more coherent with the view of necessarianism for maintaining that it is impossible that truth-makers for A exist, but it is not true. Yet (see comments on (**) above) the problem remains whether not-true means false, possessing another logical value than being true-or-false or indicates a truth-value gap. Thus, the choice of basic logic can be fairly relevant. In order to simplify the issue, I interpret ‘A is not true’ as ‘A is false’, but nothing depends on this setting in my further considerations. The positive content of conditional necessarianism has its rendering in the formula (proposed by Merricks in the above quoted passage) (13) ∀A∀y(y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⇒ □((Ex(A) ⋀ Ex(y) ⇒ Tr(A)). Accordingly, the conditional necessarianism is the conjunction of (12) ⋀ (10); (12) for the use of impossibility by Merricks himself. However, we should check whether this conjunction is actually equivalent to (14) y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⇒ □(Ex(y) ⋀ Tr(A)). Necessity and Truth Makers
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Necessitarianism says that a truthmaker necessitates that which it makes true. That is, necesitarianism says that, for all x and all p, x is a truthmaker for p only if x’s mere existence is metaphysically sufficient for p’s truth.
Merricks is not right, because (14) as a consequence of (10) cannot be equivalent with its antecedent conjoined with something else, for instance, (13) in the considered case. (14) suggests still different interpretation of necessarianism to be obtained by weakening (7) understood as a conjunction Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⋀ □(Tr(A) to the implication (15) Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⇒ □(Tr(A) The weakening in question consists in the fact that (15) is a consequence of (7) in the adopted interpretation. Yet (15) does not close the issue. Having that necessarianism (its conditional version is a slight variant of what Merrricks simply calls necessarianism) has its proper rendering in the implication Ex(y) ⋀ y ⋲TrMkA(y) ⇒ (Tr(A) with the added necessity component, we should decide in which place the operator □. We have the following possibilities (for simplicity and work with schemes similar to (*)):
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(16) (a) □(y ⋲TrMkA ⇒ Tr(A)) (b) □(y ⋲TrMkA) ⇒ □Tr(A)) (c) □(y ⋲TrMkA) ⇒ (Tr(A)) (d) y ⋲TrMkA ⇒ □Tr(A) (e) y ⋲TrMkA ⇒□ (Tr(A) Since (16)(b) follows from (16)(a), it is redundant. (16) (c) is implausible, because its antecedent is stronger than its consequent. Using the intuitive possible world semantics, it can happen that A is false at some world which verifies the sentence y ⋲TrMkA. Due to the modal principle □A ⇒ A, necessity of Tr(A) is reducible to the factuality of y ⋲TrMkA, unless we adopt a very strong modal logic in which every truth is necessary. This logic requires the Gödel rule A ├ □A without restriction that A is a tautology. This solution, although possible for necessarianism, obscures the difference between truths of logic and factual truths. In (16)(e), necessity qualifies the relation between the antecedent and the consequent. If we read this formula as ‘y ⋲TrMkA entails Tr(A)’, we have that y ⋲TrMkA├ Tr(A) and, by using the deduction theorem, we obtain ├(y ⋲TrMkA ⇒Tr(A)). Consequently, the formula y ⋲TrMkA ⇒ Tr(A) belongs to theorems. Of course, we should precede ├ by TMT, because we assume that we work in the framework of the theory of truth-makers. Nothing prevents identification of ├TMT with □TMT, that is TMT-entailment with TMTnecessity. This suggests that (16)(a) can (should?) we written as □(y ⋲TrMkA ⇒Tr(A)). VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
(17) □TMT(y ⋲TrMkA ⇒Tr(A)). The above reasoning shows that 16(e) is equivalent to (16) (a), provided that TMT-entailment and TMT-necessity are co-extensional. Logic is a good example for showing that (17) works. If the box □ expresses logical necessity, we can drop the upper index. So we have □(y ⋲TrMkA ⇒Tr(A)) and, by modal logic, □(y ⋲TrMkA) ⇒□Tr(A)). The formula □(y ⋲TrMkA) says that every possible world contains a truth-maker for A, which is necessary true that is, y is true in every possible world. So A is a truth of logic. I cannot recommend an automatic repetition of this reasoning for the conditional necessity instantiated by □TMT. Although I assumed that it is co-extensional with ├TMT this assertion requires further comments. In particular, although the symbol ├ has the standard meaning in the context of TMT-entailment, it is problematic whether logical necessity and conditional necessity are species of a general necessity concept. The sign □TMT expresses de dicto modality. On the other hand, the necessiarists about truth-makers want to speak about necessitation de re. In other words, (17) proposes an extensional approach to necessity, but (7) invites an intensional theory. Hence, (17) is probably too weak for developing the view that truth-makers necessitate truth of truth-bearers and make this job de re. Anyway, in my opinion, (17) says everything that can be said on the necessity of the truth-making relation on the basis of logic. In fact, the above analysis allows the conclusion that truthmaking necessitates truth in the sense of being its necessary condition. Saying more precisely, the true assertion that y is a truth-maker for A acts as a necessary condition for the correct assertion that A is true. If someone considers a further metaphysical or/and ontological analysis of truth-making as required, he or has to go beyond logic.6 The question is, do we need to go beyond logic with regard to propositions about empirically recognized facts? Since I am writing this paper to celebrate my friend Barry, consider the sentence (18) Barry and Jan are friends. What is the truth-maker of (18)? Let us say that the instance of the relation of friendship is RF. In other words, this relation obtains in the case of Barry and Jan, that is, ⋲ RF. What does it mean to say that the truth-maker in question necessitates (18)? The first possibility is that there is a real connection (metaphysical, ontological, causal, etc.),
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NOTES 1 I prefer the phrase ‘truth-maker’ over ‘truthmaker’ (similarly in the case “truth-making”; this convention does not concern quotations employed in this paper. 2 I omit restrictions required for the Liar paradox. 3 See Restall (1996) for an analysis based on relevant conditionals. 4 See Merricks (2007), Chapters 1–2, p. 5. 5 Merricks, 2007, pp. 5, 7. 6 See papers in Beebee and Dodd (2005), Monmoyer (2007), and Lowe and Rami (2009) for the present state of the debate on truth-makers.
REFERENCES Armstrong, D. (2004). Truth and Truthmakers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Beebee, H. and Dodd, J. (Eds.) (2005). Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Lowe, E. J. and Rami, A. (Eds.) (2009). Truth and Truth-Making. Stocksfield: Acumen. Merricks, T. (2007). Truth and Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Monmoyer, J. M. (Ed.) (2007). Metaphysics and Truthmakers. Frankfurt am Main: Ontos Verlag. Mulligan, K., Simons, P. M. and Smith, B. (1984). Truth-Makers. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 44, pp. 287–321; In: J. M. Monmoyer (2007), pp. 9–49, Lowe and Rami (2009), pp. 59–86. Rami, A. (2009). Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making. In E. J. Lowe and A. Rami (Eds.) Truth and Truth-Making. Stocksfield: Acumen, pp. 1–36. Smith, B. (1999). Truth-Maker Realism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77(3): 274–291. Woleński, J. (2008). The Character of T-Equivalences. In: C. Dégremont, R. Keiff and H. Rückert (Eds.) Dialogues, Logics and Other Strange Things: Essays in Honour of Shahid Rahman. London: College Publications, pp. 511–521; In: Woleński, J. (2011). Essays on Logic and Its Applications in Philosophy. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 231–241. Woleński, J. (2014). Truth-Makers and Convention T. In: A. Reboul (Ed.) Mind, Values, and Metaphysics: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan, v. 1. Dordrecht: Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 79–84.
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which necessitates the sentences saying that Barry and Jan are friends. I must confess that I am not able to translate this nexus into exact semantic terms. Certainly, it is not necessary that ⋲ RF. Although it occurs in the actual world, but it could be otherwise to my great regret. The second possibility is that (18) is a necessary truth. However, it is not, because it is not true in all possible worlds, but, fortunately, it holds in the actual world. This exactly means that (18) and ⋲ RF are connected in a particular world and perhaps in some conceptual replicas of it. In modal semantics of possible worlds, what is so-called the real world is distinguished as the point of reference for the accessibility relation, and the status of this object is precisely the same as any other world. Simply speaking, it is a model (or algebraic structure). Any serious talk about truth-makers requires an assumption that what is actual, has the privileged metaphysical character as something really existing and remaining in some ontological relations, like necessity or possibility. Yet the deep difference between ontology and formal semantics for modalities must be taken into account, otherwise it essentially obscures the entire issue. Since my approach uses the second, it is sufficient for me to say that, if this mode of speaking is preferred, truth-bearers of sentences have logical values in the real world according to truth-makers. Involving necessity does not contribute to the discussed issue, unless someone explains the concept of metaphysical necessitation. My view is that logical necessity is the only well-defined kind of the concept expressed by the symbol □ and its meaning is captured by truth in all models, that is, validity. We can eventually introduce a more general notion, namely being valid in a specified class of models, which is determined by a set of axioms. However, necessity as related to a single model, seems to be an oddity. This is the reason to skip necessitation as attributed to truth-making. Perhaps my friend Barry would agree, or perhaps he would see things otherwise. Whatever the case, he will remain my true friend regardless.
The Church of Sunk Costs GLORIA ZÚÑIGA Y POSTIGO Science and Humanities Ashford University 8620 Spectrum Center Blvd San Diego, CA 92123 United States Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.ashford.edu/online-degrees/general-education/faculty/gloria-zuniga-y-postigo
Keywords: Barry Smith, sunk costs, church, practical wisdom, mindfulness, meaningful life
1. WHAT IS A CHURCH OF SUNK COSTS?
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In economics, a sunk cost is a cost that has been already incurred and, thus, is sunk in the sense that it cannot be recovered or eliminated even if the purpose for which it was committed is gone.1 As such, sunk costs should have no role in our future decisions. Setting this economic wisdom aside, however, human beings often carry sunk costs into the opportunity cost considerations of future decisions. For example, we often decide to stay put in a particular situation despite how miserable it might make us feel, and we do this simply on the basis of the time, effort, or emotion we have already invested in it. Or, we view future decisions by the filter of specific psychological states—sadness or anger—that are the result of our unwillingness to abandon thoughts about what could have been or should have been the case in a past experience had it not turned out the way that it did. Such attachments to sunk costs are psychologically problematic because they can drive us into rabbit holes of our own making, bringing about self-reinforcing rounds of disappointment, regret and, sometimes, even depression. Some psychologists suggest that our musings about what is not the case—more precisely, what should have been or could have been the case—may be inevitable given our cognitive ability to multitask, that is, to think about many things beyond the present task before us.2 Our minds might wander when we are driving, attending a meeting, or even while talking with someone. And a most seductive direction for our multitasking minds seems to be the boundless realm of nostalgia. This multitasking feature of our thought is indeed an exVOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
traordinary cognitive achievement, but if the content of our thoughts is consistently focused on sunk costs, then we are set to carve only a path of unhappiness. For all the twenty-something years that I have known Barry Smith, I have observed him to be a master in the application of the principle of sunk costs and, largely as a result, to enjoy a fulfilling and meaningful life. If a jealous colleague betrayed him, Barry moved past this unpleasantness in full acceptance of sunk cost wisdom. Rumour has it that he has been observed to return ill will with kindness and generosity. If an uninformed audience did not fully grasp the depth of his argument, he did not linger in the miasma from the lesser in the group, but instead took the objections as fuel for finding new ways of demonstrating (with infectious excitement) the idea that he wanted to convey. If someone very close hurt him, I have never heard him say a bad thing about it. Since he finds wallowing in regret or resentment unnecessary and counterproductive, we have never discussed any persons or situations that he has discharged as sunk costs. But his gentle evangelization for the sunk cost principle when my life was at a crossroads on more than one occasion, combined with his exemplary application of the principle of sunk costs in his own life, have inspired my own musings on the subject over the years, mostly for my own personal considerations. The occasion of this Festschrift has led me to examine the phenomenology of sunk costs in a more formal way. What I discovered in writing this essay is that there is more to the practical application of the principle of sunk costs than meets the eye. The successful application of the sunk cost principle as a moral guide seems to require a broader frame-
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1. Faith in the sunk costs principle; 2. Mindfulness in the here and now; 3. The striving for goals that bring about fulfillment and flourishing. Before proceeding with a description for each of the above, it is important that I go back to the beginning, when I first met Barry, in order to set the proper stage for these descriptions.
2. ENCOUNTERING BARRY I first met Barry Smith in Liechtenstein and, at that time, I was at a crossroads in my education. I was exploring the possibility of studying philosophy under his direction at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie. At the time, I was in a graduate program in economics and involved in the research of economic value when, fortuitously, I had come across articles written by Barry. As a non-philosopher at the time, I immediately liked the clarity in his exposition. I also recognized in some of his writings the thing that I had been looking for but could not quite put my finger on. My mind was captured by assertions such as: Austrian economics acknowledges in its fundamental axioms the methodological and ontological centrality of the economic agent.5 [About Menger he writes that…] Anyone, he argues, who has familiarity with economic phenomena (be they actions, choices, money, prices, contracts or debts) will acknowledge, independently of empirical testing, the truth of certain necessary propositions relating to these phenomena, and it is these propositions which must form the axioms of the science of economics. Economics becomes, therefore, an entirely aprioristic discipline.6 Necessary laws concerning economic kinds are, for the Aristotelian, no more problematic than necessary laws concerning natural kinds in other spheres.7 Yet however commonplace Menger’s conception of the objects and laws of economics may appear on this aprioristic, Aristotelian interpretation, it nevertheless stands in radical conflict with one methodological principle which has come to prevail as orthodoxy amongst philosophers and methodologists of science, The Church of Sunk Costs
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work of practical wisdom. And such a framework could not be imposed by design because the boundaries of a design are demarcated by the particular beliefs of the designers. This would present limitations not only to the kind of practical wisdom that could be attributable to the framework but also to the universal application of the principle of sunk costs. The framework of practical wisdom, then, has to be one that is discovered as a social order and, over time, perfected and shared in community. This latter attribute of sharing is not only central to community, it is also the feature that would make possible the dissemination of practical wisdom as an evolutionary social order. It is in this way that I came to think of the notion of a church in relation to sunk costs. Although the word ‘church’ is most commonly employed as a noun to refer to a building for Catholic or Christian worship, such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Biblical meaning for this noun is broader; it refers to an assembly of people brought together for a common purpose. In addition, the archaic verb ‘to church’ signifies a rite of purification, which is also fitting to our context. Putting both these meanings together in relation to Barry, we can understand the Church of Sunk Costs as an assembly of all those of us who have learned and benefitted from Barry’s example and advice and who, aware of our human limitations and propensity for error, are in pursuit of redemption and a good life through a purification from past experiences. Sunk cost wisdom indeed involves a purification from past experiences, and this purification is achieved by the application of reason. “Salvation,” Barry observes, “thereby becomes at least in part a human enterprise, in which man is called upon to measure and exercise his reason.”3 Testimonial after testimonial in this Festschrift, we find the same pattern: Barry has affected individuals in ways that always lead to the examination of ideas—his or theirs—in a different light and with special attention to their contribution to a meaningful life. According to Barry, “a meaningful life is a life upon which some sort of pattern has been imposed—a pattern which is not some merely private thing which relates merely to what goes on inside your head but rather a pattern which involves also, in serious ways, your having an effect upon the world.”4 I call the pattern for the effect that Barry has had on others the Church of Sunk Costs. It is, as I have mentioned, a social order and, like any other social order, the existence of the Church of Sunk Costs has preceded our complete and clear awareness of it and of its ontological structure. This essay is thus the first attempt to articulate such a structure in three tenets:
a principle which may be formulated as follows: scientific propositions are either contingent or necessary.8 The literature in economics is quite fascinating, especially the classical contributions from the members of the Chicago School, as well as from specialists in public choice theory, evolutionary economics, and others. But with regard to the philosophical foundations of economics, the literature is less satisfactory. So when I started reading Barry’s papers, it felt like watching the parting of the clouds in the sky to make room for the sun to shine through. He writes, for example,
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The ontological grammar of economic reality that is sketched by Menger can be seen in this light as providing a pre-empirical qualitative framework in whose terms specific empirical hypotheses can be formulated and specific mathematical models be given concrete interpretation. Such a foundation cannot itself be derived, on pain of circularity, either from empirical investigations of the more usual sort or from mathematical analyses. It must rather be derived at least in part—or so the apriorist argues—from that familiarity with particular economic phenomena which we are all of us able to acquire as economic agents.9 The Austrian economists in today’s Vienna have long forgotten Menger, the modern-day Austrian economists were not addressing the value theoretical matters that interested me, and the mainstream of economics had not even heard of the Austrian economists at the turn of the twentieth century other than in a history of economic thought course. But here was a philosopher reminding us with his attention to a somewhat forgotten period that these oversights should not keep us from recognizing their contemporary significance. This was a revelation for me.
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This is a trap that I wanted to avoid. I also wanted to avoid a domineering dissertation director who micromanaged every aspect of my research, or expected me to place his or her research as central to my investigations. In light of these concerns, meeting Barry was a pleasant surprise because he was warmer, kinder, and more generous that I had imagined him. I am quite certain that I knew when I first met him what my decision would be. And I should add that studying under Barry’s direction was one of the best decisions that I have made in my life. But I am getting ahead of the story, for I need to get to the role of faith first. My disenchantment with economics was not with it as a field of study for, as a graduate student, economics was still the most exciting discipline I had found until then. Rather, I was disenchanted with the prospect of becoming a professional “mathematoholic”. Nonetheless, it was still unnerving to consider the possibility of leaving economics behind and starting from scratch in philosophy. I had already made an investment of time, effort, and emotional commitment to economics. For me, philosophy was a new and untested territory in which I had no formal training. Moreover, I already had a good idea that (and my experience studying philosophy has indeed confirmed this): philosophy is hard. Fascinating, enthralling, and compelling (to me) but, nonetheless, hard. What if I failed? What if I did not like it and found myself stuck with a bad decision? These were indeed all the wrong considerations to have with regard to a future investment of one’s time, effort, and emotions because sunk costs do not—and should not—have a role in the opportunity cost considerations of future choices. Whatever was the cost of my education in a discipline that I was not to pursue further, this cost was an unrecoverable and unavoidable cost and, thus, a sunk cost. Barry has inspired many to change career directions: engineers and mathematicians have become philosophers, philosophers have become knowledge engineers and biomedical ontologists, and so on. This was also the case for me. In making my choice to pursue philosophy, Barry’s advice helped me to recognize the wisdom of the principle of sunk costs as a principle of practical wisdom, and to take a leap of faith in the direction of philosophy. As a student of economics, I was aware of the principle of sunk costs already. However, I had not really thought of applying this principle outside of business decisions concerning production and into the personal realm of decisions regarding the future deployment of my own human capital. This is how I first encountered the first bit of Barry’s practical wisdom built on a ground of philosophical foundations of economic theory. Shortly thereafter,
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me to have faith and promised to send work my way. I was not quite sure what he meant by faith at the time but, in retrospect, I think that he was telling me to have faith in what the future could bring, that is, to be forward looking. I must admit that not until I wrote this essay did I come to the full realization of the role of faith in the application of the principle of sunk costs. I do not have a problem embracing certain things on faith and I think that, setting religion aside, we all have faith in someone or something at some point in our lives if we are courageous enough to take a risk. According to one understanding, faith is to accept with certainty that which is hoped for and to hold the conviction for what is not yet seen.10 The risk is to be wrong in what we accept on faith. Consequently, faith cannot be divorced from reason and prudential judgment in order for faith to be distinguishable from a roll-ofthe-dice decision. When I switched disciplines, I had faith that I had made the right choice. I couldn’t know for sure, but there was sufficient rational support for my making this choice, and so I followed this path. So long as what we accept on faith is supported by reason and prudential judgment, then the faith that we place on, say for example, a friend or a spouse is no different from the faith upon which we accept rationally defensible scientific theories for which there is no definitive proof. We could be wrong in all of these cases, of course, and when this happens, the only productive way to move forward is to change the bearer of our faith from whatever it had been—e.g., a perceived honorable offer of employment, in my case—to the principle of sunk costs. The challenge is that transferring one’s faith from one bearer to another is much more difficult that one can imagine. In the most devastating cases, I dare say, this transfer seems almost impossible. But there is one other tenet in the structure of the Church of Sunk Costs that can facilitate such a transfer, and this is the principle of mindfulness.
4. MINDFULNESS Mindfulness is the process of bringing one’s attention to the present moment. This involves shutting off the mind’s wanderings. And there is a particular mechanism for deploying mindfulness that is represented by three building blocks of consciousness regulation.11 i.
Intention—this refers not only to the directedness of the present experience but, more specifically, to a directedness that targets the most enlightening aspect of the experience. The idea of finding the aspect of an experience The Church of Sunk Costs
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I was a graduate student of Barry’s, not in Liechtenstein as I had expected, but at the University at Buffalo, where he had just accepted a full professorship. In retrospect, I am glad to report that my experience as a graduate student in Buffalo was not only better than I expected, it ranks among the happiest and most fulfilling times in my life. I did not discover until many years later, however, that the application of the principle of sunk costs is not just a rational and mechanical response to future production decisions in business or, as I have presented here, in the personal realm of decisions. A fortiori, the application of the principle of sunk costs demands faith. This requires some explanation. I was at another crossroads in my life around four years after my graduation from Buffalo. I had been offered a position of Research Director at a large institute in South America but, unbeknownst to me, the president of this organization had made this decision unilaterally and had not informed his Board of this decision. This was not the regular hiring procedure at the institute and, understandably, the older directors at this institute felt slighted and made this feeling very clear to me. One of these directors asked me to sign a contract that was not even close to the offer that the president of the institute had made verbally and which I took at his word. I remember him handwriting each element of the offer as we talked in his mansion, but this agreement was not in the contract presented to me. So I specified to the director the offer that the president had made, and this director informed me that such an offer was impossible. When I asked to discuss the matter directly with the president, I was told that he does not involve himself in such details but that he would be informed of my request. The next day I received an email indicating that the offer had been rescinded, and I never again heard from the president. This eleventh hour contract breach was devastating to me financially because I had already committed thousands of dollars in the arrangements for my move, the transport of my belongings, and the three months’ rent for my new place. The latter alone was already $6,000 in the rather expensive neighborhood of El Olivar, near the institute. But I was unable to recover any of these costs. If there ever was a call for sunk cost wisdom, this was indeed the most perfect case for its application. Barry knew of this situation because he had been a supporter of my being hired for this position. In this situation, too, Barry reminded me of the principle of sunk costs and asked me to refrain from thinking about my financial loss. But, for me, not even sunk cost wisdom could turn my acceptance of this situation into anything other than a bitter pill to swallow. In an effort to lift my spirits, Barry told
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that is the most conducive to one’s understanding or growth is perhaps a difficult concept to grasp within the context of intentionality in Western philosophy. In the Buddhist tradition, however, the intentional directedness to the present experience goes hand-in-hand with a vision for personal growth. As such, the targeted aspect of the experience is that which will best enhance the path to greater enlightenment. The search for and subsequent discovery of such an aspect of the experience is an evolving process given the dynamic nature of our experiencing present experiences. ii. Attention—this is the focus on the present experience as it is presented and, above all, avoiding any interpretation of the present experience that would switch the focus to other feeling-states from past experiences (e.g., anger, fear, anxiety, excitement, and so on). As such, this focus is also critical in setting forth a psychological healing process.12 Above all, this focus is essential to the success of i (above) and iii (below). More specifically to our examination of sunk costs, this focus allows us to develop the skill of switching the focus of attention, and thus inhibiting negative emotions from past experiences whose sequelae might be in our present experience. Accordingly, this skill makes possible the transfer of faith from a situation that did not work out as hoped for to the wisdom of sunk costs that allows us to be forward looking. iii. Attitude—this refers to how we attend the present experience. We can bring a positive attitude to our mindfulness—e.g., a compassionate attitude, or an attitude of peacefulness and forgiveness—but we can also attend to our present experience by the filter of sadness or depression at one extreme to anger and desire for vengeance at the other extreme. If we attend to our experience with a negative attitude about our present lot, then we attend to the experience of feeling negatively about our lives. By contrast, when we attend to our present experience with compassion (including compassion for oneself), then one attends to the experience of feeling restored. This self-regulation of attitude is learnable,13 and it is reinforced by having a goal that offers a more rewarding state of mind than that which is achieved through a negative attitude. I shall address this in more detail in the next section. Cognitive psychologists have examined the attentional abilities that can be developed from mindfulness, including the ability to shift focus from mental states at will.14 This is a VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
powerful ability. It is not surprising, then, that many philosophical traditions have reminded us to practice mindfulness. The state of mindfulness in Shinkataza, for example, is a dedicated awareness of what is happening to us in the moment, and also the immediate effects of such happenings in us.15 Some claim that this ancient Buddhist practice of mindfulness influenced some religious traditions and popular culture—from those practiced by Catholic monks, rabbis, and Episcopal priests, all the way to modern-day yoga and martial arts instructors.16 Barry is as much an urban-Buddhist as he is a socialist, so no one could ever attribute to him either a formal Eastern philosophical influence, nor its modern-day popularized versions. Moreover, I have never heard Barry speak of mindfulness. However, Barry is a man who not only accomplishes more in the same amount of time as anyone else who is similarly driven, he is also productive on many fronts. On a light day for Barry, he may be writing a paper, while reading on another topic, teaching a course, and responding to emails almost instantaneously. The only way that he can do this is by focusing on one task at the time, in full attention and, from what I have witnessed, in a joyful way. We could call this discipline, sure, but mindfulness brings to relief a finer-grained description of Barry’s productive efficiency. We might not be able to achieve the masterful level of mindfulness that Barry can muster, but he has shown us the way by example.
5. THE STRIVING FOR GOALS THAT BRING ABOUT FULFILLMENT AND FLOURISHING Let us tie together what we have covered so far. The success of our application of the principle of sunk costs is dependent on our mindfulness. In other words, placing one’s faith on the wisdom of sunk costs and applying mindfulness to reinforce this end can help us to shift our minds away from past losses and toward the present. Together, these two tenets constitute a good assembly of problem-solving skills applicable to discrete cases. But without the motivation to move forward, that is, something for which to strive, we might be tempted to look back at sunk costs again and to consider ways in which we could recover what we lost. So we must seek for a goal, but not just any goal. We need to seek for a goal that brings about fulfillment and flourishing because such a goal will keep us looking forward even if we have further setbacks and losses. “What makes a life worth living,” says Barry, “has something to do with what you do, here on Earth…”17
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The goals that we strive for, then, should give our lives direction as well as a purpose that is not aimed merely at fulfilling our desires and abilities. In other words, the purpose should be bigger than ourselves.
6. BARRY’S EFFECT ON OTHERS Barry has not only followed the principle of sunk costs, he has also lived a life focused on the tasks presented before him, one at the time, and he has directed his life toward a purpose that transcends his own self-interests. I view this purpose as threefold: (1) to examine ideas for their own sake, (2) to serve others who seek his help, and (3) to live honorably. I would like to address each of these briefly. First, let us consider the task of examining ideas for their own sake. For those who reach prominence in their own time, it is not always easy to demarcate the line that separates their selfinterested motives from their love of ideas. Indeed, it is the duty of a scholar to present his or her contributions to the circles in which they will be most productive. This demands the effort to make one’s contributions known by means of teaching, presenting, and publishing. Barry’s speaking skills are impressive, combining penetrating analysis with humor and, many times, silliness in order to drive a point home. His success in teaching and presenting is thus well-known in the philosophical circles and institutions in which he has chosen to participate actively. At only 65, Barry’s list of publications alone (see the Appendix to this volume) is the length of an average-size dissertation. It is most certainly longer than mine, and let me add parenthetically that I know that Barry would have preferred that my dissertation had been even shorter given his penchant for brevity.19 The sheer volume of his contributions, however, is most certainly not the measure of his pursuit of ideas for their own sake. The mark that Barry has made lies in the effect that he has had in philosophy. Barry, along with Peter Simons and Kevin Mulligan, brought new attention to the ontological aspect of the correspondence theory of truth. As such, this illustrious trio made an important mark on the examination of truth, a central subject in philosophy. Barry has also brought attention to Austrian philosophy and the philosophy of Austrian economics, which has led to new re-
search in philosophy and economics based on the contributions of turn-of-the-twentieth century Austrian thought.20 Barry has also championed thinkers who have been either unknown or quite obscured in contemporary philosophical literature, such as for example Anton Marty, Christian von Ehrenfels, Johannes Daubert, Adolf Reinach, and Roman Ingarden. This effort has had a profound impact on many if we consider the vast number of citations that his work commands. Moreover, Barry has built the ontology specialty at the department of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, for which it is best known today. He did this through his courses and research interests, as well as by bringing former students and colleagues from Germany and elsewhere to add to the new ontology specialty of the department. There are many other examples of Barry’s contributions to philosophy that are mentioned in other articles of this Festschrift, but the chief point that I would like to make is that, although he has been widely recognized for his professional contributions and has received prestigious awards, the fame that Barry has sought has been primarily for the ideas that he has pursued rather than for fame itself. This brings me to the second aspect of the larger purpose that Barry has pursued: the service to others. All those who know Barry, even superficially, know that he is generous with his time despite his ambitious work schedule. This generosity ranges from replying to emails quickly to more substantial help such as reading a paper, or making a significant impact in someone’s career with support for a grant, post-doc, internship, or teaching position. He has helped many—students, former students, colleagues, friends and strangers alike, most likely even more than the great many who already admit to this—and without seeking gratitude or quid pro quo conditions. It might be the case that some who have been on the receiving end of his generosity do not recognize it for what it is. But I do not see such situations burdening Barry in the least because he has a broader purpose that motivates him to serve others. Barry helps simply because he wants to facilitate the pursuit of other people’s plans if it is in his hands to do so. It would seem also that this purpose also supports the first aspect of this broader purpose mentioned above—the pursuit of ideas for their own sake—because Barry is also a profoundly modest man. He would not view his work as being the only important contribution to philosophy. This might come as a surprise to those who have witnessed, in a class session or at a conference, Barry’s demonstrations that pretend to indicate selfimportance. For example, who could forget his unlimited praise of the British for all that is good in the world: walls The Church of Sunk Costs
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[It] depends not on your, or other people’s, beliefs or feelings, but on what you do, on what you achieve, and thus on the degree to which through your efforts you succeed in imposing a pattern on your life which has some implications also for the world around you.18
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(meaning, property rights), the rule of law, efficient language, and good philosophy, with some concessions to the contributions by Brentanian-influenced Austrian and Polish philosophers, and a few others (a few German and French, plus one Nicaraguan). Or, his claims lauding male superiority to such an extreme measure as to make clear to any keen observer that he does not hold such an absurd view. It is precisely his modesty that allows him to set aside his concern for how he would be viewed as a person by anyone who is not previously aware of his tactics to shock an audience out of their uncritical attachment to a cause by questioning their own point of view and, thereby, to give them the chance to consider an alternative view. Only a modest man recognizes that the pursuit of ideas for their own sake is not achievable by any one person alone but, rather, only as a purpose carried by many, and the more who can be enlisted, the better. The third aspect of Barry’s broader purpose in life is, as I see it, his commitment to living honorably. What does this mean exactly? We can think of living honorably as acting consistently with honesty, generosity, kindness, and loyalty and observing morally good behavior such as standing by one’s word, promises, and duties. All of these attributions are true for Barry. But the point that I want to make here is that living honorably also means living well. Despite his legendary capacity for hard work, I have never seen Barry trade an opportunity for enjoyment of fine food and wine, good jazz, a social gathering with friends, or true love, for work. Barry has indeed found true love and good friendships because he wants to live a fulfilling life, one that involves his dedication to his calling but also a life that is filled with other beautiful things that life has to offer. We often mistake differences in the lifestyles of others as flaws that need correcting. Europeans and Latin Americans, in my casual observation, embrace long vacations as not only necessary for survival but as activities that must never be mixed with any kind of work. People who hold this view may see Barry as a workaholic. In the United States, however, many view vacations as interruptions to their work that should be either minimized or mixed with some work in order to justify the need to take one. People who hold this view may see Barry as hard working. As a Basque-Peruvian Catholic, raised in a Methodist-American school in Peru, who later moved to the United States to attend college, subsequently to become an American citizen, and then resettling in Europe, I straddle both views. Accordingly, I can understand how someone holding any of these views could feel horrified at the extreme opposite view. What we must recognize, however, is that there is no single script for livVOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
ing a happy life. We must discover what is the right balance of work and leisure for each one of us. I have no doubt that Barry has sought this Aristotelian Golden Mean for leading a happy life, and I am even more certain that he has found it. And this is how Barry has built what I call the Church of Sunk Costs and has, thereby, carved a meaningful life that amounts to much more than professional accolades. He has shown by example that the Church of Sunk Costs is a sound secular guide for practical wisdom. Most notably, and despite his prodigious appetite for work, Barry seems to have a good life. As far as the rest of us are concerned, the effects of Barry’s Church of Sunk Costs can be as extraordinary as we want them to be. Not least of all, we can see sunk costs for what they really are: distractions from living a good life. Hence, a setback that we may encounter just means that we can set our eyes on the opportunities that we have yet to take, the people we have yet to meet, and the ideas we have yet to entertain. For opening my eyes to all this, I thank you Barry!
NOTES 1 Baumol and Willig 1981, p. 406 2 Killingsworth and Gilbert 2010 3 Smith 2002, p. 7 4 Smith 2002, p. 10 5 Smith 1986, p. 2 6 Smith 1986, p. 2 7 Smith 1986, p. 3 8 Smith 1986, p. 3 9 Smith 1990, p. 279 10 Hebrews 11:1 11 Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, and Freedman 2006, p. 375 12 Shapiro, et al. 2006, p. 376 13 Shapiro, et al. 2006, p. 377 14 Posner, 1980 15 Scharf 2014, p. 941 16 Scharf 2014, p. 942 17 Smith 2002, p. 10 18 Smith 2002, p. 13, brackets added 19 See Erion 2017, pp. 6-8 20 See Austrian Thought: Philosophy and Economics, Zúñiga y Postigo and Williford (forthcoming)
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Trouble Up at t’Ontological Mill: An Inconclusive Dialog A WHIMSICAL POSTSCRIPT IN ONTOLOGICAL FOLKLORE PETER SIMONS Department of Philosophy Room 5009 Arts Building Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Email: [email protected] Web: sites.google.com/site/petermsimons/
Keywords: Barry Smith, ontology, SNAP, SPAN, continuants, occurrents
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Background: Grenon and Smith (2004) propose a framework for the ontology of things in space and time involving and invoking the distinction between continuants and occurrents, which has become a key element of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). The terminology of SNAP (from “snapshot:” state of a continuant at a time) and SPAN (how an occurrent develops over an interval or timespan) occurs in that paper’s title. While any commonsense ontology will have a place for both continuants and occurrents, there is much room for philosophical debate on whether one of them is more basic than the other, or can be reduced to the other, or whether they are equally fundamental, or whether they are two different perspectives on the same reality. Grenon and Smith opt for the last of these. They call the accounts of continuants (SNAP) and occurrents (SPAN) both “ontologies.” They do not have a single ontology of all that is in space and time. This dialog throws a few of the common arguments around a bit and comes to no sure conclusion. But one of the characters bears a faint resemblance to a certain Buffalonian philosopher. Abstract, Grenon and Smith (2004): We propose a modular ontology of the dynamic features of reality. This amounts, on the one hand, to a purely spatial ontology supporting snapshot views of the world at successive instants of time and, on the other hand, to a purely spatiotemporal ontology of change and process. We argue that dynamic spatial ontology VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
must combine these two distinct types of inventory of the entities and relationships in reality, and we provide characterizations of spatiotemporal reasoning in the light of the interconnections between them. [Time: the present. Scene: A Philosophy Department Common Room. Four ontologists are discussing change. Three-Dimensionalist (3D) and Four-Dimensionalist (4D) are disputing, the two others are listening.] 3D [in tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, cord trousers, brown Oxford brogues, checked shirt with striped school tie, with chalk-stained fingers, is speaking donnishly at the blackboard]: ... so you see I do not need your events at all. An event is merely a succession of changes to a substance, or what you call a “continuant” (sniffs). Let C be any changing “continuant,” such as this piece of chalk, a gyrocompass, or a chameleon. Now as Aristotle says in the Physics ... [4D (in shorts and T-shirt with baseball cap and trainers) can contain himself no longer. Throwing down the copy of Scientific American that he had been browsing, he jumps up and excitedly runs through Lewis’s “temporary intrinsics” argument from On the Plurality of Worlds, (Lewis 1986, pp. 202–205) to the effect that because of the threatening inconsistencies in the notion of change, it is best to take C to have temporal parts, i.e. be an occurrent. 3D sighs: he has heard it all so many times before.]
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SSM: I can avoid the inconsistencies by distinguishing between SPAN, which looks at occurrents over time, and SNAP, which is a series of snapshots (instantaneous states) of continuants at different times (shows several slides in quick succession to emphasize his point). 4D (languidly): I can show using your instantaneous states that C has temporal parts after all. SSM (surprised): How? 4D: I just sum all the instantaneous states together. SSM: But you can’t do that. 4D: Why not? I just did. SSM: But it’s inconsistent. If C changes, then its properties at one time are contrary to those at another. What you get by summing states is not C but C’s life. That’s not a continuant, it’s an occurrent. 4D: Precisely. C and C’s life are one and the same. SSM: But you can’t say that. It goes against common sense. It’s nonsense. 4D (sarcastically): I don’t recognize Oxford ordinary language prohibitions. I am a scientist. SSM (determinedly): Here’s an argument. C’s life, being an occurrent, has all its parts essentially. So, if C is C’s life, C could not have existed for a longer or shorter time than it did. But C obviously could have ceased to exist earlier or later than it did. So, there is a modal difference between C and C’s life, which means they are essentially distinct. Even if a continuant exists only for an instant, it could have existed for longer, but an instantaneous occurrent has to be instantaneous. So, no continuant can be an occurrent.
[At the word “essentially,” 3D, who had been disconsolately fingering his well-used copy of Liddell and Scott’s A Greek– English Lexicon, brightens up for a moment, only to lapse into despond again at the word “occurrent.”] 4D (briskly): I don’t accept your modal distinction. For me what you call C’s life could have been longer or shorter. I see no need for the distinction. All objects in time are occurrents. SSM (persistently): But we cannot identify and recognize occurrents except by identifying and recognizing continuants (Strawson 1959). 4D (sneeringly): That’s epistemology. I am an ontologist. Anyway, Strawson may be wrong (Moravcsik 1970). SSM (recovering): I agree that we need occurrents in our ontology. But like Wiggins (2001), and unlike you, or 3D, I am a continuant–occurrent dualist. 4D: By your own admission you have instantaneous states in SNAP, and I have just shown you how to sum these mereologically to give temporally extended things, which are in SPAN. So, you are hoisted by your own petard. Admit it, your dualism is unnecessary and by Ockham’s Razor continuants should be discarded in a modern scientific ontology. [3D groans quietly] SSM: Let me clarify what I mean. By “instantaneous states” I don’t mean entities in the world, but momentary snapshots, consistent representations of what there is at an instant. 4D (incredulously): You mean you don’t take them ontologically seriously after all? SSM: Yes, but not as entities. 4D (with heavy irony): Oh I’m sorry, I thought we were doing ontology. I didn’t quite catch the silent quotation marks. That’s what linguists do all the time isn’t it? They confuse entities with representations. I thought you were against that. SSM (huffily): I am. Vehemently. Medical Informatics is rife with it, but I’m putting them right. What I mean is that because of change you cannot put different SNAP ontologies together consistently. You need a multiplicity of SNAP on-
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[At this point a third and smartly dressed ontologist springs to 3D’s defence with a “May I?” With deft and practiced movements, he sweeps chalk dust from the table, places his elegant and state-of-the-art laptop on the clean space, plugs it into the projector, pulls a white screen down in front of the dusty blackboard and starts to click through a large PowerPoint file to reach a slide. He is: SNAP–SPAN Metaontologist.]
tologies, one for each different time, and a SPAN ontology for occurrents. 4D: Why can’t you put different ontologies together to get a bigger and more adequate one? SSM: Because by an “ontology” I mean a consistent theory of things all of which can be mereologically summed. 4D (puzzled): And why can’t I put different SNAP ontologies together? SSM: Because then you would have inconsistencies. 4D (more puzzled): Why? Why can’t I merge SNAP ontologies just as easily as I summed instantaneous states (before I understood you — er — correctly)?
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SSM (triumphantly): Because then either you’d have a SPAN ontology, which fails to recognize continuants, or you’d have continuants which have incompatible properties. A single ontology cannot encompass both continuants and occurrents, and remember, no continuant can be an occurrent. [4D lapses into head-shaking silence. At this point the fourth ontologist, who has kept silent until now, clears her throat. She is wearing elegant jeggings and top from a Milan fashion house. Her laptop is metallic pink. She is agnostic about 3D/4D but believes that ontology forms a single unified discipline or field. She is: Unified Field Ontologist.]
UFO (flashingly and without a trace of sarcasm): I don’t recognize Oxford ordinary language prohibitions. I am a scientist. SSM (coaxingly): Come on, you have to admit such monstrous (Fine 1999) transcategorial sums are absurd. UFO (defiantly): Go ahead, make my day. Show me the contradiction. SSM: Erm … well you have to admit they are pretty bizarre and weird. UFO: I don’t deny that, but so are lots of things. Anyway, even if I admit that there are no transcategorial sums, why does that mean we cannot have a single ontology? SSM: Because by an “ontology” I mean a consistent theory of things all of which can be mereologically summed. UFO: Oh yes, so you said. But there’s a lot more to ontology than mereology. For instance, if John kisses Mary there are John and Mary, both of whom are continuants, and the kiss, which is an occurrent. They may not (pace Lewis, Armstrong and others) be parts of a single mereological whole, but you have to admit they are connected. SSM (smugly): Oh yes, I do. Entities in all my different ontologies are linked by relations. The theory of these linking relations is what I call “metaontology.”
UFO (to SSM): So are you saying there is no such thing as ontology, Aristotle and Wolff ’s science of being qua being?
UFO (puzzled herself): But surely the relations in your metaontology are in the world?
SSM: Yes. I used to think there was, but Medical Informatics changed my mind. Since an ontology concerns only things which can be summed mereologically, and not all things can be summed mereologically, there is not one ontology but many.
SSM (decisively): Yes of course. I am a realist. Well, except that some of the relations are internal, but let’s not worry about that.
UFO: What’s wrong with the mereological sum principle, that any two or more entities have a mereological sum? SSM (amusedly): Would we really say there is a single object consisting of the number 9, the color blue, my computer and the first five minutes of this year’s UEFA Cup Final? We don’t talk like that.
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UFO: So why is the whole consisting of all your ontologies together with metaontology not Aristotle and Wolff ’s science of being? SSM: Because the whole is inconsistent. UFO: Not if you do the job properly.
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UFO: Why privilege mereology? SSM: Because it’s central to ontology. UFO (pensively): I don’t disagree there. But let’s see, you presumably think that identity is at least as fundamental to ontology as mereological relations are?
UFO: You can if you do the job properly. SSM: You said that before. Let’s not repeat ourselves. What do you mean by doing the job properly? UFO: You admit that each of your ontologies is consistent. SSM: Of course. It’s designed to be. UFO: So a consistent ontology is one that could be completely true?
SSM (suspiciously): Yeees — go on.
SSM: Yes of course.
UFO: Well suppose I confine an ontology to all that can consistently be said of all the things that can be glued together using the identity relation. Then I’d have as many ontologies as entities (smiles cheerfully).
UFO: So all the ontologies could be true together.
SSM (outraged): But then you couldn’t even say in one ontology that a is not identical to b, or that a is a proper part of b! That would be intolerable!
SSM (condescendingly): Just because some judgments are consistent and some other judgments are consistent doesn’t mean the whole lot are consistent. Take any contingent judgment, say that p. Each of p and its negation not-p is consistent but the pair {p, not-p} is not. In ontology it’s much more complicated but the principle is the same.
UFO: I could deal with all the linking relations between distinct existences in my metaontology, which would contain all yours does and more still, to cope with difference and mereology.
UFO (doggedly): Suppose one of your ontologies O1 is not just consistent but actually true.
SSM: That would be ridiculous.
UFO: And another one O2 is also true.
UFO: It’s no different in principle from what you do.
SSM: Yes. That could happen.
SSM (trying another tack): But anyway, identity isn’t a real relation. Your ontologies would contain only such trivialities as that a = a and that a exists. All or nearly all the interesting parts would be relegated to the metaontology.
UFO: Then O1 + O2 is also true, so it is consistent.
UFO: The same as in your case. Only once all the fun is in the metaontology I can forget the silly ontologies and just rename the whole thing “ontology,” and I get what I want.
UFO (smoothly): If you do the job properly, each of the ontologies is true, as is the metaontology, so the whole consisting of all of them is true. So the whole is true, and therefore consistent. That’s what I mean by doing the job properly.
SSM: But at least my ontologies are consistent. Your metaontology would not be. UFO: Why not? SSM: Because you can’t put all the ontologies (including the mereologies) together consistently.
SSM: All right.
SSM: I’ll grant you it works in that simple case, but in the full-blown case ...
SSM: But look, it just can’t be done. I used to think like you, but Medical Informatics has convinced me it cannot. UFO: Surely you aren’t suggesting that truth be relativized to a time, or an ontology, or a view, or in some other way.
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SSM (firmly): By keeping ontologies confined to consistent maximal mereological ones, I rescue as much of that doomed project as is possible.
SSM (stiffly): Of course not. Truth is absolute. It’s just that some of the things traditional ontologists thought could be done cannot be done without getting into contradictions ... 3D (perking up, sotto voce in UFO’s left ear): You could call them “antinomies of pure reason.” SSM: ... so we have to pull our horns in and be more modest. 4D (catching on, sotto voce in UFO’s right ear): You could call it “metaphysics within the bounds of sense.” SSM (noticing the whispering): What? UFO (brightly): So — you are a follower of Kant then? SSM (affecting not to hear the name): Who? Anyway, it’s getting late. Anyone fancy a glass of wine?
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REFERENCES Fine, K. (1999). Things and their parts. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 23: 61–74. Grenon, P. and Smith, B. (2004). SNAP and SPAN: Towards dynamic spatial ontology. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(1): 69–103. Lewis, D. K. (1986). On the plurality of worlds. Oxford: Blackwell. Moravcsik, J. (1970). Strawson and ontological priority. In: R. J. Butler (Ed.) Analytical philosophy: Second series. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 106–119. Strawson, P. F. (1959). Individuals. London: Methuen. Wiggins, D. (2001). Sameness and substance renewed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Appendix: Publications by Barry Smith BOOKS Barry Smith (Ed.), Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, x + 348pp. Reviews: P. M. Simons, Conceptus, 17 (1983), 131–134. J. Shearmur, Free Life, 3/2 (1983), 16–17. W. Stock, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 37 (1984), 93–96. R. Cardinal, Explorations in Knowledge, 2 (1985), 68–69.
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Barry Smith (Ed.), Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology, Munich: Philosophia, 1982, reprinted 2001, 564pp. Reviews: V. Muñoz Delgado, Estudios Filosoficos, (1982) 38, 611–613. I. Niiniluoto, Zentralblatt für Mathematik, (1983) 489, 15–16. D. P. Henry, History and Philosophy of Logic, (1983) 4, 228–229. F. G. Asenjo, Rivista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, (1983) 9, 174–177. U. Charpa, “Neues zur Lehre von den Ganzen und Teilen”, Philosophische Rundschau, 1/2 (1984), 52–59. J. M. Salanskis, “Parties, Moments et Modalités”, Critique, 443 (1984), 290–296. R. Sokolowski, Review of Metaphysics, 38 (1984), 140–142. B. Schuwey, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 45 (1985), 474–476. G. Berger, Noûs, (1986) 20, 115–121. J. Woleński, “Czeski i momenty”, Studia Filozoficzne, 1–2/242–243 (1986), 191–195. D. Münch, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 39 (1986), 272–276. R. Casati, “Laboratorio husserliano”, Fenomenologia e scienze dell’uomo, 2/1 (1986), 283–287. R. Tragesser, Husserl Studies, 5 (1988), 169–173. N. Hentschel, Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsforschung, 32 (1988), 137–139. G. Schenk, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Universität Halle, 39 (1990), 116–118.
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Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith (Eds.), Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background, New York: New York University Press, London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986, x + 250pp. Reprint, London: Routledge, 2010. Reviews: A. W. Dnes, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 33 (1986), 391–395. B. J. Loasby, Economic Journal, 96 (1986), 1165–1166. R. Ebeling, “The Roots of Austrian Economics”, Market Process, 5 (1987), 20–22, repr. in S. C. Littlechild, Ed., Austrian Economics, vol. 1, Aldershot/Brookfield VT: Edward Elgar, 38–40. J. Walker, Journal of Economic Studies, 14 (1987), 67–68. M. Rothbard, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 4 (1987), 248–250. J. A. Tucker, Austrian Economics Newsletter, (Fall 1988), 10–11.
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Barry Smith (Ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory, Munich and Vienna: Philosophia, 1988, 495pp. Reviews: J. Schulte, Lingua e Stile, 23 (1988). V. Fano, “Gestalt e genesi precategoriale”, Annali, 9 (1988), 165–181. J. L. Gardies, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’Etranger, 179 (1989), 119. V. MuZoz-Delgado, Estudios, 46 (1990), 134–135. C. G. Allesch, Conceptus 24 (1990), 106–107. C. Porebski, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 43 (1990), 176–178. D. Münch, History and Philosophy of Logic, 11 (1990), 238–240. C. G. Allesch, Zeitschrift für klinische Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie, 37 (1989), 476–477.
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J. M. Salanskis, “Le concept de Gestalt et la situation contemporaine de la philosophie des sciences”, Les Etudes philosophiques, 4 (1990), 519–536. J. Wolenski, Ruch Filozoficzny, 17 (1990), 162–164. E. and J. Dölling, Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 112 (1991), 189–192. 5.
J. C. Nyíri and Barry Smith (Eds.), Practical Knowledge: Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills, London/Sydney/New York: Croom Helm, 1988, ix + 213pp. Reviews: T. Whittock, British Journal of Aesthetics, 29 (1989), 191–192. F. Adams, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 9, (1989), 283–285. J. M. Heaton, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 21 (1990), 299–300. R. T. Allen, Tradition and Discovery, 17 (1990/91), 36–38.
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Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Band I: Die Werke, Teil I: Kritische Neuausgabe (1905–1914), Teil II: Nachgelassene Texte (1906–1917); Band II: Kommentar und Textkritik, Munich/Hamden/Vienna: Philosophia, 1989, critical edition with commentary by Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, 2 vols., xx + 848pp. Reviews: U. H. D., Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 36 (1989), 147. M. Crespo, Diálogo Filosófico, 6 (1990), 274. J. Seifert, Prima Philosophia, 3 (1990), 408–415. B. Waldenfels, Philosophische Rundschau, 37 (1990), 348. J. Machnacz, Zycie katolickie, (1990), 147–150. V. Munoz Delgado, Estudios, 46 (1990), 161–162. J. Seifert, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 44 (1991), 24–29. N. Duxbury, “Apriori Philosophy and Legal Ontology”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 77 (1991), 262–266. P. Gorner, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 25(3), (1994), 309-311.
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Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, 2 vols., Munich/Philadelphia/Vienna: Philosophia, 1991, reprinted 2001, xxv + 1,005pp. Reviews: J. M. Perreault, Choice, (April 1992), 38–39. A. C. Grayling, Times Literary Supplement, (17 April 1992), 26. S. Scharnagl, Bayernkurier, (24 October 1992). Guillermo Hurtado, Tópicos, vol. II, núm. 3, (1992). O. R. Scholz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (15 September 1992). Roberto Poli, History and Philosophy of Logic, 24 (1992), 258–260. James DuBois, Review of Metaphysics, 47 (1993), 391–392. Roberto Poli, Axiomathes, 1 (1993), 140–142. John Haldane, Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (1993), 130. Michele Marsonet, Epistemologia, 16 (1993), 345–347. M. Moors, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 56 (1994), 161–162. Fran Mau, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 47 (1994), 54–56. Timothy Joseph Day, Minds and Machines, 5 (1995), 131–134. Stanley Paulson, Philosophical Books, 44: 2 (2003), 135–153.
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Barry Smith (Ed.), Philosophy and Political Change in Eastern Europe (The Monist Library of Philosophy), La Salle: The Hegeler Institute, 1993, vi + 192pp. Reviews: D. Cross, Small Press, (Winter 1994/95). A. R. Brunello, Choice, (December 1994). Nebojsa Kujundzic, Dialogue, 36 (1997), 648–650. T. Sunic, CLIO, 24 (1995), 440–443.
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Barry Smith, Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 1994, xiii + 381pp. Paperback edition: 1996.
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Reviews: Terry Skeats, Library Journal, 119 (1 September 1994), 185. J. Barker, Choice, 32 (March 1995), 1136. Ulf Höfer, Nachrichten. Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für Österreichische Philosophie, 6 (1995), 55–58. Kurt R. Fischer, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 3 (1995), 303–304. S. Gandon, “La philosophie autrichienne”, Critique, 51 (October 1995), 794–796. David Gordon, “Why the Austrian School is Austrian”, The Mises Review, 1:4 (1995), 18–21. Winfried Löffler, Kontroversen in der Philosophie, 8 (1995), 99–107. Susan Krantz, Brentano Studien, 6 (1995/96), 325-327. Richard Beach, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 16 (1996), 62–64. Werner Diederich and Eva Picardi, Erkenntnis, 45 (1996), 123–127. Francis Dunlop, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 27 (1996), 330–332. Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 52 (1996/97), 191–220. Robin D. Rollinger, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 35 (1997), 314–315. Kelley, L. Ross, The Proceedings of the Friesian School, 4 (1998). Pierre Keller, Modern Austrian Literature, 29 (1996), 180–184. Gisela Kubon-Gilke, Gestalt Theory (1996), 157–158. Johannes Brandl, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57 (1997), 697–702. Manuel Durand-Barthez, Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale (1999), 3, 427-428.
11. Barry Smith and David W. Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, x + 519pp. Reprinted 1996. Reviews: Michel Bordeau, “Les nouveaux habits du Professeur Husserl”, Critique, 593 (1996), 893–907. Brice R. Wachterhauser, Ethics 107 (October 1996), 198. J. A. Bell, Choice 33 (February 1996), 961. P. Buckley, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 58 (1996), 768–769. Paul S. MacDonald, Philosophical Writings, 2 (1996), 109-110. R. P. Buckley, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 16 (1996), 294–296. Michael Inwood, International Philosophical Quarterly 36/4 (1996), 490–493. Paul Gorner, The Philosophical Quarterly, 48 (1998), 419–422. Wojciech Zelaniec, Brentano Studien, 6 (1997), 334–339. M. J. Larrabee, Philosophical Review, 106 (1997), 283–286. Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, “Edmund Husserl: A Philosopher for all Seasons?” Modern Logic, 7 (1997), 380–395. Jonathan Barnes, “Just a Swipe at Edmund”, Dialectica, 53: 2 (1999), 151–154. 12. Balázs Mezei and Barry Smith, The Four Phases of Philosophy (Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie), Amsterdam / Atlanta: Rodopi (with appendix: “The Four Phases of Philosophy” by Franz Brentano, translated from the German by Balász Mezei and Barry Smith), 1999, iv + 122pp. Reviews: Wolfgang Huemer, Philosophy in Review (Comptes rendus philosophiques), 20 (2000), 206–209. 13. Barry Smith (Ed.), Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society, Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2002, x + 294 pp. Review: Ed Brandon, Metapsychology, Jan 19, 2004 14. Barry Smith (Ed.), John Searle, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 312 pp. Reviews: Constantine Sandis, Metapsychology, 8 (4), 2004.
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10. Barry Smith (Ed.), European Philosophy and the American Academy (The Monist Library of Philosophy), La Salle: The Hegeler Institute, 1994, viii + 226pp. Reviews: Barry Gross, Academic Questions, 8 (1995), 88–93. David C. Jacobs, Teaching Philosophy, 19 (1996), 306–310.
Rodych, Victor. Philosophy in Review (Comptes rendus philosophiques), 24(5), (2004), 365-367. Richard De Blacquière-Clarkson, Philosophical Writings, 26 (2004), 75-77. Briggs, Richard S. Heythrop Journal: A Bimonthly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 46(2), (2005), 270-272. P. Madigan “John Searle”, Heythrop Journal: Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology 47 (2), 2006, 335-337. 15. Aurel Kolnai, On Disgust, Barry Smith and Carolyn Korsmeyer (Eds.), Chicago: Open Court, 2003, viii + 120 pp. Review: Francis Raven, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2004, 62 (4): 408-409. 16. Barry Smith, David Mark and Isaac Ehrlich (Eds.), The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality, Chicago: Open Court, 2008, xxiv + 360 pp. Reviews: Wolfgang Grassl, Journal of Markets and Morality, 11(2), 2008, 343-345. Maksymilian Del Mar, Dialectica, 63(3), 2009, 365-368 17. Katherine Munn and Barry Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction (free download as e-book), Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos/ Walter de Gruyter, 2008, 342 pp. Reviews: Peter Simons, “Ontology Meets Ontologies: Philosophers as Healers”, Metascience, 18(3), 2009, 469-473. Joshua Gordon, Education for Information, 27(4), 2009, 231-234. Sanfilippo E. M., Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, 2:2 (2011), 137-40. 18. Ludger Jansen and Barry Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Wissen strukturieren für den Informatik-Einsatz (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 252 pp. As e-book (revised): Zürich: vdf, 2011.
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19. Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. MIT Press Scholarship Online Review: Martin Frické, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, in press.
EDITED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1.
Roberto Casati, Barry Smith and Graham White (Eds.), Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1994, viii + 682pp.
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Berit Brogaard and Barry Smith (Eds.), Rationality and Irrationality, Vienna: öbv&hpt, 2001, 411 pp.
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Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, New York: ACM Press, 2001, xvi + 348 pp.
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Pierre Grenon, Christopher Menzel and Barry Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the KI2003 Workshop on Reference Ontologies and Application Ontologies, Hamburg, Germany, September 16, 2003. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 94.
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Mitsuhiro Okada and Barry Smith, Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 26-27, 2008), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2008.
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Mitsuhiro Okada and Barry Smith (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 28-March 1, 2009), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2009, iv + 166 pp.
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Barry Smith (Ed.) ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (Buffalo, NY, July 24-26, 2009). Buffalo: National Center for Ontological Research, 2009.
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Barry Smith, Riichiro Mizoguchi and Sumio Nakagawa (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 27-28, 2010), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2010.
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Mitsuhiro Okada and Barry Smith (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Fifth Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 23-24, 2012), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2012, iv + 159 pp.
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JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1.
Barry Smith and Richard Scheuermann (Eds.), Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Research (Special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, 176 pp.
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Stefano Borgo, Riichiro Mizoguchi and Barry Smith (Eds.) The Ontology of Functions (Special issue of Applied Ontology), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 6 (2), 2011, 64 pp.
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Andreas Tolk and Barry Smith (Eds.), Command and Control Ontology (Special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems), 4 (3), 2011, 98 pp.
REFEREED ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS 1.
Barry Smith, “The Ontogenesis of Mathematical Objects”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 6 (1975), 91–101.
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Barry Smith, “Frege and Husserl: The Ontology of Reference”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 9 (1978), 111–125.
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Barry Smith, “An Essay in Formal Ontology”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 6 (1978), 39–62.
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Barry Smith, “Law and Eschatology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought”, Inquiry, 21 (1978), 425–441.
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Barry Smith, “Ingarden vs. Meinong on the Logic of Fiction”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 16 (1980), 93–105. Polish translation as: “Ingarden versus Meinong o logice fikcji”, in Z. Muszyński (Ed.), Z badań nad prawdą i poznaniem, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMC-S (1998), 283–296.
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Barry Smith, “Logic, Form and Matter”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 55 (1981), 47–63.
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Barry Smith, “Osztrák és magyar filozófia: Wittgenstein és Pauler logikájáról”, Magyar Filozófiai Szemle (1981), 139–144.
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Barry Smith and Kevin Mulligan, “Framework for Formal Ontology”, Topoi, 3 (1983), 73–85.
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Barry Smith, “Weininger und Wittgenstein”, in B. F. McGuinness and A. Gargani (Eds.), Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy (Teoria, 5), Pisa: ETS (1984), 156–165. Romanian translation in Revista de filosofie, 49, (2002), 233-246.
10. Barry Smith, “Acta cum fundamentis in re”, Dialectica, 38 (1984), 157–178. 11. Barry Smith, “Ten Conditions on a Theory of Speech Acts”, Theoretical Linguistics, 11 (1984), 311–330. 12. Kevin Mulligan, Peter M. Simons and Barry Smith, “Truth-Makers”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 44 (1984), 287–321. Reprinted in Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Frankfurt/Lancaster/New Brunswik: Ontos, 9-50. Reprinted in E. J. Lowe and A. Rami (Eds.), Truth and Truth-Making, Chesham: Acumen (2009), 59-86. German translation as: “Wahrmacher”, in L. Bruno Puntel (Ed.), Der Wahrheitsbegriff. Neue Explikationsversuche (a collection of readings on modern theories of truth), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (1987), 210–255. French translation as “Vérifacteurs”, Études de philosophie, no. 9-10, 2008-2011 (published August 2011), translated by B. Langlet and J.-F. Rosecchi, 104-138. 13. Barry Smith, “De la modification du sentiment: l’esthétique de l’Ecole de Graz”, Revue d’Esthétique, 9 (1985), 19–37. 14. Barry Smith, “Ontologische Aspekte der Husserlschen Phänomenologie”, Husserl Studies, 3 (1986), 115–130. 15. Barry Smith, “The Substitution Theory of Art”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 25/26 (1986), 533–557. Italian translation as: “La teoria sostituzionale dell’arte”, in E. Pulcini (Ed.), Teorie delle passioni (Supplementi di Topoi), 3 (1989), 186–209. 16. Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “A Relational Theory of the Act”, Topoi, 5/2 (1986), 115–130. 17. Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Husserl’s Logical Investigations”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 27 (1986), 199–207. 18. Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “A Husserlian Theory of Indexicality”, in Grazer Philosophische Studien, 28 (1986),
133–163.
19. Barry Smith, “The Substance of Brentano’s Ontology”, Topoi, 6/1 (1987), 39–49.
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20. Barry Smith, “The Ontology of Epistemology”, Reports on Philosophy, 11 (1987), 57–66. Polish translation as: “Ontologia epistemologii”, in W. Strozewski and A. Wegrzecki (Eds.), W Kregu Filozofii Romana Ingardena, Warsaw/Cracow: PWN, 1995, 111–119. 21. Barry Smith, “Zalai Béla és a tiszta lét Metafizikája”, Magyar Filozófiai Szemle (1987/3), 584–593. German version: “Bela Zalai und die Metaphysik des reinen Seins”, Brentano Studien, 5 (1994), 59–68. 22. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Questions: An Essay in Daubertian Phenomenology”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47 (1987), 353–384. 23. Barry Smith, “The Soul and Its Parts: A Study in Aristotle and Brentano”, Brentano–Studien, 1 (1988), 75–88. 24. Barry Smith, “The Primacy of Place: An Investigation in Brentanian Ontology”, Topoi, 8 (1989), 43–51. 25. Barry Smith, “Logic and the Sachverhalt”, The Monist, 72 (1989), 52–69. Revised version in: L. Albertazzi, M. Libardi and R. Poli (Eds.), The School of Franz Brentano, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer (1996), 323–341. Italian translation as: “Dalla psicologia del giudizio all’ontologia dello stato di cose” in Discipline Filosofiche, 7: 2 (1997), 7–28. 26. Barry Smith, “On the Origins of Analytic Philosophy”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 35 (1989), 153–173. 27. Barry Smith, “Aristotle, Menger, Mises: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Economics”, History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement to vol. 22 (1990), published simultaneously as B. Caldwell (Ed.), Carl Menger and His Economic Legacy, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990), 263–288. Reprinted in: E. Younkins (Ed.), Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond, New York: Lexington Books, 2005, 199-222.
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29. Barry Smith, “Textual Deference”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 28 (1991), 1–13. Danish translation as: “Textlig Œrbødighed”, Kritik, 116 (1995), 89–99. Italian translation as: “Deferenza testuale”, Divus Thomas, 24/3 (1999), 92–116. Russian translation as: “Проблема перевода”, Logos 5 (2000), 124–139. 30. Barry Smith, “German Philosophy: Language and Style”, Topoi, 10 (1991), 155–161. 31. Barry Smith, “La verità trionfa: Da T. G. Masaryk a Jan Patočka”, Discipline Filosofiche, 2 (1991), 207–227. German version as: “Von T. G. Masaryk bis Jan Patočka. Eine philosophische Skizze”, in J. Zumr and T. Binder (Eds.), T. G. Masaryk und die Brentano-Schule, Graz/Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences (1993), 94–110. 32. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology: The Case of Emil Lask and Johannes Daubert”, KantStudien, 82 (1991), 303–318. 33. Barry Smith, “Zum Wesen des Common Sense: Aristoteles und die naive Physik”, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 46 (1992), 508–525. Revised version as: “Räumliche Entitäten: Örter, Löcher, Grenzen“, in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Die biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften – Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 113-126. 34. Barry Smith, “The Soul and Its Parts, II: Varieties of Inexistence”, Brentano-Studien, 4 (1992/93), 35–51. Romanian translation in: Revista de Filosofie, 49(3-4), (2002), 233-246. 35. Barry Smith, “Putting the World Back into Semantics”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 44 (1993), 91–109. Reprinted in Peer F. Bundgaard and Frederik Stjernfelt (Eds.), Semiotics (Critical Concepts in Linguistics Series), London: Routledge (2010). Russian translation in: Ophyr, n.d. 36. Barry Smith, “An Essay on Material Necessity”, P. Hanson and B. Hunter (Eds.), Return of the A Priori (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 18), (1993), 301–322. 37. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Two Idealisms: Lask and Husserl”, Kant-Studien, 83 (1993), 448–466. Polish translation as: “Dwa oblicza idealizmu: Lask a Husserl”, in A. J. Norasa and D. Kuboka (Eds.), Miedzy kantyzmem a neokantyzmem, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersyteto Slaskiego (2002), 130–156.
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38. Barry Smith and Roberto Casati, “Naive Physics: An Essay in Ontology”, Philosophical Psychology, 7/2 (1994), 225–244. French version: “La physique naïve: un essai d’ontologie”, Intellectica, 17 (1993), 173–197. Belorussian translation Polish translation 39. Barry Smith, “Zur Kognition räumlicher Grenzen: Eine mereotopologische Untersuchung”, Kognitionswissenschaft, 4 (1995), 177–184. 40. Barry Smith, “Formal Ontology, Common Sense, and Cognitive Science”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43 (1995), 641–667. Condensed version in: AI*IA Notizie. Periodico dell’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenze Artificiale, 7 (1994), 11–18. Italian translation as: “L’ontologia del senso commune”, in E. Agazzi (Ed.), Valore e Limiti del Senso Comune, Milan: FrancoAngeli (2004), 261–284. 41. Barry Smith, “More Things in Heaven and Earth”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 50 (1995), 187–201. 42. Barry Smith, “The Structures of the Commonsense World”, Acta Philosophica Fennica, 58 (1995), 290–317. Preprinted in: S. Poggi (Ed.), Gestalt Psychology. Its Origins, Foundations and Influence, Florence: Olschky (1994), 209–232. Italian translation as: “Le strutture del mondo del senso commune”, in Iride (Florence), 9 (1992), 22–44. Partially reprinted as “Ontologia ecologia” in M. Ferraris (Ed.), Ontologia, Naples: Guida (2003), 146–151. German translation as: “Die Struktur der Common-Sense Welt”, Logos, N. F. 1 (1994), 422–449. Russian translation 43. Barry Smith, “Mereotopology: A Theory of Parts and Boundaries”, Data and Knowledge Engineering, 20 (1996), 287–303.
45. Barry Smith, “Ontologie des Mesokosmos: Soziale Objekte und Umwelten”, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 52 (1998), 521–540. 46. Barry Smith, “Boundaries: A Brentanian Theory”, Brentano-Studien 8 (1998/99), 107–114. Revised version as: “Zeno’s Paradox for Colors”, in Robert Dostal, Lester Embree, Joseph J. Kockelmans, J. N. Mohanty, and Olav K. Wiegand (Eds.), Phenomenology of German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and Logic, Dordrecht: Kluwer (2000), 201–207. 47. Barry Smith, “Truthmaker Realism”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77 (3) (1999), 274–291. 48. Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “The Niche”, Nous, 33:2 (1999), 198–222. Extended abstract published as: “Mereology, Topology, Ecology: A Formal Theory of Organism-Niche Relations”, in J. Cachro and K. Kijania-Placek (Eds.), 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Volume of Abstracts, Cracow: Jagiellonian University (1999), p. 351. Polish translation as: “Nisza,” Filozofia Nauki, 8: 3/4 (2000), 5–30. 49. Barry Smith and David Mark, “Ontology with Human Subjects Testing: An Empirical Investigation of Geographic Categories”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 58: 2 (April 1999), 245–272. 50. Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60: 2 (March 2000), 401–420. Revised version of Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “The Formal Ontology of Boundaries”, Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 5: 5 (1997). Russian translation in: Ophyr, n.d. 51. Barry Smith, “Les objets sociaux,” Philosophiques, 26/2 (1999), 315–347. English version Russian version 52. Werner Ceusters, Ignace Desimpel, Barry Smith and Stefan Schulz, “Using Cross-Lingual Information to Cope with Underspecification in Formal Ontologies”, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 95 (2003), 391–396. 53. Barry Smith and John Searle, “The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 62: 2 (2003), 285-309. Reprinted in Laurence S. Moss and David Koepsell (Eds.), John Searle’s Ideas about Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms, and Appendix: Publications by Barry Smith
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44. Barry Smith, “On Substances, Accidents and Universals: In Defence of a Constituent Ontology”, Philosophical Papers, 26 (1997), 105–127. Russian translation
Reconstructions, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2003). French translation as: “L’ontologie de la realité sociale”, in P. Livet and R. Ogien (Eds.), L’Enquête ontologique, du mode de l’existence des objets sociaux, Paris: Editions EHESS (2000), 185–208. Russian translation 54. Barry Smith, “Philosophie, Politik und wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Zur Frage der Philosophie in Österreich und Deutschland”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 58/59 (2000), 241–262. 55. Barry Smith, “The Chinese Rune Argument”, Philosophical Explorations, 4 (2), 2001, 70-75, with Searle’s response, 75–77. 56. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “Living High and Letting Die”, Philosophy, 76 (2001), 435–442 (published under the pseudonym Nicola Bourbaki). 57. Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Geographical Categories: An Ontological Investigation”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15: 7 (2001), 591–612. Reprinted in: Peter Fisher (Ed.), Classics from the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, London: Taylor and Francis, 2006, 481–506. 58. Barry Smith, “Fiat Objects”, Topoi, 20: 2 (September 2001), 131–148. Italian translation as: “Oggetti Fiat”, Rivista di Estetica, 20/2 (2002), 58–87. 59. Barry Smith and Leonardo Zaibert, “The Metaphysics of Real Estate”, Topoi, 20: 2 (September 2001), 161–172. 60. Barry Smith, “Husserlian Ecology” (in Japanese), Human Ontology (Kyoto), 7 (2001), 9–24. Japanese translation, 25-41. 61. Barry Smith, “Truthmaker Realism: Response to Gregory”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 80 (2) (2002), 231–234.
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63. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “Quantum Mereotopology”, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 35/1–2 (2002), 153–175. Shorter version in: Spatial and Temporal Granularity. Papers from the AAAI Workshop (AAAI Technical Report WS-00-08), Menlo Park: AAAI Press (2000), 25–31. 64. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “A Unified Theory of Truth and Reference”, Logique et Analyse, No. 169-170 (2000, published 2003), 49–93. French translation: “Une théorie unifiée de la vérité et de la référence” in J. M. Monnoyer (Ed.), La Structure du Monde: Objets, Propriétés, États du choses, Paris: Vrin (2004), 141–184. Russian translation 65. Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms”, Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design), 30(3) (2003), 411–427. 66. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “Sixteen Days”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 28 (2003), 45–78. German translation as: “Sechzehn Tage: Wann beginnt ein menschliches Leben?”, in G. Imaguire and Christine Schneider (Eds.), Untersuchungen zur Ontologie, Munich: Philosophia, 2006, 3–40. Revised version as “Die Ontologie des Embryos”, in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften - Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 199-228. 67. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith “Vague Reference and Approximating Judgements”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 3: 2 (2003), 137–156. Russian translation 68. Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4: 1 (March 2004), 69–103. 69. Barry Smith and Anand Kumar, “Controlled Vocabularies in Bioinformatics: A Case Study in the Gene Ontology”, BIOSILICO: Drug Discovery Today, 2 (2004), 246–252. 70. Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly and Barry Smith, “Endurants and Perdurants in Directly Depicting Ontologies”, AI Communications, 13: 4 (2004), 247–258.
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71. Jean-Luc Verschelde, Mariana Casella Dos Santos, Tom Deray, Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Ontology-Assisted Database Integration to Support Natural Language Processing and Biomedical Data-Mining”, in: R. Hofestädt (Ed.), Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 1 (2004), 1-10. Repr. in: Yearbook of Bioinformatics (2004), 39–48. 72. Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon, “The Cornucopia of Formal-Ontological Relations”, Dialectica 58: 3 (2004), 279–296. 73. Anand Kumar, Barry Smith and Daniel Novotny, “Biomedical Informatics and Granularity”, Comparative and Functional Genomics, 5 (2004), 501–508. PMC2447428 74. Barry Smith and Bert R. E. Klagges, “Philosophie und biomedizinische Forschung”, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 30: 1 (2005), 5–26. Revised version in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 17-30. English version as “Bioinformatics and Philosophy”, in K. Munn and B. Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/ Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 17-30. 75. Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Bert Klagges, Jacob Köhler, Anand Kumar, Jane Lomax, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Alan Rector and Cornelius Rosse, “Relations in Biomedical Ontologies”, Genome Biology (2005), 6 (5), R46. PMC1175958 76. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith and Louis Goldberg, “A Terminological and Ontological Analysis of the NCI Thesaurus”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 44 (2005), 498–507. 77. Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Anand Kumar and Cornelius Rosse, “On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities”, Comparative and Functional Genomics, vol. 6, issue 7/8, 2005, 379–387. PMC2447494 78. Berit Brogaard and Barry Smith, “On Luck, Responsibility and the Meaning of Life”, Philosophical Papers¸ 34(3), 2005, 443–458.
80. Jonathan Simon, James Fielding and Barry Smith, “Formal Ontology for Natural Language Processing and the Integration of Biomedical Databases”, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 75 (3-4), 2006, 224-231. 81. Anand Kumar, Barry Smith, Domenica Pisanelli, Aldo Gangemi and Mario Stefanelli, “Clinical Guidelines as Plans: An Ontological Theory”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 45 (2), 2006, 204-210. 82. Anand Kumar, Yum Lina Yip, Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon, “Bridging the Gap between Medical and Bioinformatics: An Ontological Case Study in Colon Carcinoma”, Computers in Biology and Medicine 2006; 36, (7-8): 694-711. 83. Barry Smith, “From Concepts to Clinical Reality: An Essay on the Benchmarking of Biomedical Terminologies”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006; 39(3): 288-298. Revised version as “New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies”, in K. Munn and B. Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 83-109. 84. Christiane Fellbaum, Udo Hahn and Barry Smith, “Towards New Information Resources for Public Health – From WordNet to Medical WordNet”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006; 39(3): 321-332. 85. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Strategies for Referent Tracking in Electronic Health Records”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006; 39(3): 362-378. 86. Rubin DL, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Misra S, Westerfield M, Ashburner M, Sim I, Chute CG, Solbrig H, Storey MA, Smith B, Richter JD, Noy NF and Musen MA, “National Center for Biomedical Ontology: Advancing Biomedicine through Structured Organization of Scientific Knowledge”, Omics: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 10(2), 2006, 185-198. 87. Patricia L. Whetzel, Ryan R. Brinkman, Helen C. Causton, Liju Fan, Jennifer Fostel, Gilberto Fragoso, Mervi Heiskanen, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Norman Morrison, Helen Parkinson, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Daniel Schober, Barry Smith, Robert Stevens, Chris Stoeckert, Chris Taylor, Joe White, “Development of FuGO – An Ontology for Functional Genomics Experiments”, Omics: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 10(2), 2006, 199-204. PMC2783628 88. Jacob Köhler, Katherine Munn, Alexander Rüegg, Andre Skusa, Barry Smith, “Quality Control for Terms and Definitions in Ontologies and Taxonomies”, BMC Bioinformatics, 2006, 7: 212, PMC1482721 89. Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons and Barry Smith, “What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?”, Topoi, 25 (1-2), 2006, 63-67. Finnish translation as “Mikä nykyfilosofiassa on vialla?” in: niin & näin, 1 (2014), 69-74 (published with commentary by Tuomas E.
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79. Ingvar Johansson, Barry Smith, Katherine Munn, Nikoloz Tsikolia, Kathleen Elsner, Dominikus Ernst, and Dirk Siebert, “Functional Anatomy: A Taxonomic Proposal”, Acta Biotheoretica, 53(3), 2005, 153–166.
Tahko (76-78), Pauliina Remes (80-82) and Susanna Lindberg (85-90). Portuguese translation as “Ce se întâmplă cu filosofia contemporană?”, Rivista de filosofie, 62 (6), 2015, 759-765. 90. Leo Obrst, Patrick Cassidy, Steve Ray, Barry Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Matthew West and Peter Yim, “The 2006 Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communiqué”, Applied Ontology, 1 (2), 2006, 203-211. 91. Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar, Anita Burgun, “Investigating Subsumption in SNOMED CT: An Exploration into Large Description Logic-Based Biomedical Terminologies”, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2007, 39, 183-195. PMC2442845 92. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Referent Tracking for Treatment Optimisation in Schizophrenic Patients: A Case Study in Applying Philosophical Ontology to Diagnostic Algorithms”, Journal of Web Semantics, 2006; (4)3, 229-236. PMC203705415 Long version with supplementary data. 93. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith “Referent Tracking for Digital Rights Management,” International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2(1), 2007, 45-53. 94. Werner Ceusters, Peter Elkin and Barry Smith, “Negative Findings in Electronic Health Records and Biomedical Ontologies: A Realist Approach”, International Journal of Medical Informatics 2007; 76: 326-333. PMC2211452. 95. Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner, Cornelius Rosse, Jonathan Bard, William Bug, Werner Ceusters, Louis J. Goldberg, Karen Eilbeck, Amelia Ireland, Christopher J Mungall, The OBI Consortium, Neocles Leontis, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alan Ruttenberg, SusannaAssunta Sansone, Richard H Scheuermann, Nigam Shah, Patricia L. Whetzel, Suzanna Lewis, “The OBO Foundry: Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies to Support Biomedical Data Integration”, Nature Biotechnology, 25 (11), November 2007, 1251-1255. PMC2814061
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97. Chris F Taylor, Dawn Field, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Rolf Apweiler, Michael Ashburner, Catherine A Ball, Pierre-Alain Binz, Alvis Brazma, Ryan Brinkman, Eric W Deutsch, Oliver Fiehn, Jennifer Fostel, Peter Ghazal, Graeme Grimes, Nigel W Hardy, Henning Hermjakob, Randall K Julian, Jr., Matthew Kane, Eugene Kolker, Martin Kuiper, Nicholas Le Novère, Jim Leebens-Mack, Suzanna E Lewis, Ruth McNally, Alexander Mehrle, Norman Morrison, John Quackenbush, Donald G Robertson, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Barry Smith, Jason Snape, Peter Sterk, Stefan Wiemann, “Promoting Coherent Minimum Reporting Requirements for Biological and Biomedical Investigations: The MIBBI Project”, Nature Biotechnology, 26 (2008), 889-896. PMC2771753 98. David P. Hill, Barry Smith, Monica S. McAndrews-Hill, Judith A. Blake, “Gene Ontology Annotations: What they mean and where they come from”, BMC Bioinformatics, 2008; 9(Suppl 5): S2. PMC2367625 99. David Koepsell, Robert Arp, Jennifer Fostel and Barry Smith, “Creating a Controlled Vocabulary for the Ethics of Human Research: Towards a Biomedical Ethics Ontology”, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009, 43-58. PMC2725426 100. Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly and Barry Smith, “A Spatio-Temporal Ontology for Geographic Information Integration”, International Journal for Geographical Information Science, 23 (6), 2009, 765-798. 101. Daniel Schober, Barry Smith, Suzanna E Lewis, Waclaw Kusnierczyk, Jane Lomax, Chris Mungall, Chris F Taylor, Philippe RoccaSerra and Susanna-Assunta Sansone, “Survey-based naming conventions for use in OBO Foundry ontology development”, BMC Bioinformatics, 2009 (June), 10:125. PMC2684543 102. Cecilia Arighi, Hongfang Liu, Darren Natale, Winona Barker, Harold Drabkin, Zhangzhi Hu, Judith Blake, Barry Smith and Cathy Wu, “TGF-beta Signaling Proteins and the Protein Ontology”, BMC Bioinformatics, 10: Art. No. S3 Suppl. 5, May 16 2009. PMC2679403 103. Anna M. Masci, Cecilia N. Arighi, Alexander D. Diehl, Anne E. Lieberman, Chris Mungall, Richard H. Scheuermann, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “An improved ontological representation of dendritic cells as a paradigm for all cell types”, BMC Bioinformatics, February 2009, 10:70. PMC2662812 104. Barry Smith, “Toward a Realistic Science of Environments”, Ecological Psychology, 2009, 21 (2), April-June, 121-130. 105. Holger Stenzhorn, Stefan Schulz, Martin Boeker and Barry Smith, “Adapting Clinical Ontologies in Real-World Environments”, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 14 (22), 2009, 3767-3780. PMC2853050 106. Stefan Schulz, Holger Stenzhorn, Martin Boekers and Barry Smith, “Strengths and Limitations of Formal Ontologies in the Biomedical Domain”, Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health (Special Issue on Ontologies,
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Semantic Web and Health), 3 (1), 2009, 31-45. PMC2904529 Portuguese translation as “Vantagens e limitações das ontologias formais na área biomedical”, Reciis: Revista Electronica de Comunicacao Informacao, Inovacao em Saude, March 2009, March 2009, Vol. 3, N 1, 33-48. 107. Gunnar O. Klein and Barry Smith, “Concept Systems and Ontologies: Recommendations for Basic Terminology”, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 25, 2010, 433-441. PMC3034144. Japanese translation in Journal of the Japanese Society for Artifical Intelligence, 25 (3), 2010, 317-325. 108. David R. Karp, Nishanth Marthandan, Steven G. E. Marsh, Chul Ahn, Frank C. Arnett, Lindsay Cowell, David S. DeLuca, Alexander D. Diehl, Raymond Dunivin, Karen Eilbeck, Michael Feolo, Paula A. Guidry, Wolfgang Helmberg, Suzanna Lewis, Maureen D. Mayes, Chris Mungall, Darren A. Natale, Bjoern Peters, Effie Petersdorf, John D. Reveille, Barry Smith, Glenys Thomson, Matthew J. Waller, Richard H. Scheuermann, “Novel Sequence Feature Variant Type Analysis of the HLA Genetic Association in Systemic Sclerosis”, Human Molecular Genetics, 2010 Feb 15;19(4):707-19. PMC2807365 109. Barry Smith and Mathias Brochhausen, “Putting Biomedical Ontologies to Work”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 49 (2), 13540. (Published September 2010) PMC3116518 German version as “Biomedizinische Ontologien für die Praxis”, European Journal for Biomedical Informatics, 1 (2009). 110. Jiye Ai, Barry Smith, and David Wong (2010) “Saliva Ontology: An ontology-based framework for a Salivaomics Knowledge Base”, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:302. PMC2898059 111. Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Ontological Realism as a Methodology for Coordinated Evolution of Scientific Ontologies”, Applied Ontology, 5 (2010), 139–188. PMC3104413 112. Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSA”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011 (Feb.), 44:1, 35-41. PMC2930208.
114. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Foundations for a Realist Ontology of Mental Disease”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2010, 1:10, 1-23. PMC3017014 115. Werner Ceusters, Maria Capolupo, Georges De Moor, Jos Devlies, Barry Smith, “An Evolutionary Approach to Realism-Based Adverse Event Representations”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 50 (1): 62-73, 2011. PMC2829617 116. Darren A. Natale, Cecilia N. Arighi, Winona C. Barker, Judith A. Blake, Carol J. Bult, Michael Caudy, Harold J. Drabkin, Peter D’Eustachio, Alexei V. Evsikov, Hongzhan Huang, Jules Nchoutmboube, Natalia V. Roberts, Barry Smith, Jian Zhang, Cathy H. Wu, “The Protein Ontology: A Structured Representation of Protein Forms and Complexes”, Nucleic Acids Research 2011, 39 (Database Issue), D539-545. PMC3013777 117. Carol J. Bult, Harold Drabkin, Alexei Evsikov, Darren Natale, Cecilia Arighi, Natalia Roberts, Alan Ruttenberg, Peter D’Eustachio, Barry Smith, Judith A. Blake, Cathy Wu, “The Representation of Protein Complexes in the Protein Ontology (PRO)”, BMC Bioinformatics, September 2011, 12:371. PMC3189193 118. Mark A. Musen, Natalya F. Noy, Nigam H. Shah, Patricia L. Whetzel, Christopher G. Chute, Margaret-Anne Story, Barry Smith, and the NCBO team, “The National Center for Biomedical Ontology”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 19 (2), 2012, 190-195. PMC3277625 119. Barry Smith, “How to Do Things with Documents”, Rivista di Estetica, 50 (2012), 179-198. 120. Jiye Ai, Barry Smith and David Wong, “Bioinformatics Advances in Saliva Diagnostics”, International Journal of Oral Science, (2012) 4, 85–87. PMC3412667 120. Ramona L. Walls, Balaji Athreya, Laurel Cooper, Justin Elser, Maria A. Gandolfo, Pankaj Jaiswal, Christopher J. Mungall, Justin Preece, Stefan A. Rensing, Barry Smith, Dennis W. Stevenson, “Ontologies as Integrative Tools for Plant Science”, American Journal of Botany, 99(8): 1–13, 2012. PMC3492881 121. Barry Smith, “Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology”, Ratio, 25:4 (2012), 463-488. PMC 3718480 Reprinted in D. Oderberg (Ed.), Classifying Reality, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 101-126. 122. Barry Smith, Tatiana Malyuta, David Salmen, William Mandrick, Kesny Parent, Shouvik Bardhan, Jamie Johnson, “Ontology for the Intelligence Analyst”, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, November/December 2012, 18-25.
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113. Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “Foundations of an Ontology of Philosophy”, Synthese, 2011, 182 (2), 185-204. Preprint version
123. Laurel Cooper, Ramona L. Walls, Justin Elser, Maria A. Gandolfo, Dennis W. Stevenson, Barry Smith, Justin Preece, Balaji Athreya, Christopher J. Mungall, Stefan Rensing, Manuel Hiss, Daniel Lang, Ralf Reski, Tanya Z. Berardini, Donghui Li, Eva Huala, Mary Schaeffer, Naama Menda, Elizabeth Arnaud, Rosemary Shrestha, Yukiko Yamazaki, Pankaj Jaiswal, “The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses”, Plant and Cell Physiology, 54 (2) (Database Issue), Feb. 2013, 1-23 (PMC3583023) 124. Darren A. Natale, Cecilia N. Arighi, Judith A. Blake, Carol J. Bult, Karen R. Christie, Julie Cowart, Peter D’Eustachio, Alexander D. Diehl, Harold J. Drabkin, Olivia Helfer, Hongzhan Huang, Anna Maria Masci, Jia Ren, Natalia V. Roberts, Karen Ross, Alan Ruttenberg, Veronica Shamovsky, Barry Smith, Meher Shruti Yerramalla, Jian Zhang, Aisha AlJanahi, Irem Celen, Cynthia Gan, Mengxi Lv, Emily Schuster-Lezell, Cathy H. Wu, “Protein Ontology: a controlled structured network of protein entities”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, 42(1): D415-21. 125. Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison, Barry Smith, Christopher J Mungall, Suzanna E Lewis and the ENVO Consortium, “The Environment Ontology: Contextualizing Biological and Biomedical Entities”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4:43. 126. Mark Jensen, Alexander P. Cox, Naveed Chaudhry, Marcus Ng, Donat Sule, William Duncan, Patrick Ray, Bianca WeinstockGuttman, Barry Smith, Alan Ruttenberg, Kinga Szigeti, Alexander D. Diehl, “The Neurological Disease Ontology”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2013, 4:42.
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128. R. L. Walls, J. Deck, R. Guralnick, S. Baskauf, R. Beaman, S. Blum, S. Bowers, P. L. Buttigieg, N. Davies, D. Endresen, M. A. Gandolfo, R. Hanner, A. Janning, L. Krishtalka, A. Matsunaga, P. Midford, N. Morrison, É. Ó Tuama, M. Schildhauer, B. Smith, B. J. Stucky, A. Thomer, J. Wieczorek, J. Whitacre, and J. Wooley, “Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to the Biological Collections Ontology and Related Ontologies”, PLoS One, March 3, 2014, 10.1371/journal. pone.0089606 (PMC3940615) 129. David Koepsell and Barry Smith, “Beyond Paper”, The Monist, 97 (2), April 2014, 222–235. 130. Janna Hastings, Gwen Alexandra Frishkoff, Barry Smith, Mark Jensen, Russell A Poldrack, Jane Lomax, Anita Bandrowski, Fahim T. Imam, Jessica A Turner and Maryann E Martone, “Interdisciplinary perspectives on the development, integration and application of cognitive ontologies”, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 8:62, 2014. 131. Yongqun He, Sirarat Sarntivijai, Yu Lin, Zuoshuang Xiang, Abra Guo, Shelley Zhang, Desikan Jagannathan, Luca Toldo, Cui Tao and Barry Smith, “OAE: The Ontology of Adverse Events”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 07/2014, 5:29. 132. Andrew R. Deans, Suzanna E. Lewis, Eva Huala, Sallvatore S. Anzaldo, Michael Ashburner, James P. Balhoff, David C. Blackburn, Judith A. Blake, J. Gordon Burleigh, Bruno Chanet, Laurel D. Cooper, Mélanie Courtot, Sándor Csösz, Hong Cui, Wasila Dahdul, Sandip Das, T. Alexander Dececchi, Agnes Dettai, Rui Diogo, Robert E. Druzinsky, Michel Dumontier, Nico M. Franz, Frank Friedrich, George V. Gkoutos, Melissa Haendel, Luke J. Harmon, Terry F. Hayamizu, Yongqun He, Heather M. Hines, Nizar Ibrahim, Laura M. Jackson, Pankaj Jaiswal, Christina James-Zorn, Sebastian Köhler, Guillaume Lecointre, Hilmar Lapp, Carolyn J. Lawrence, Nicolas Le Novère, John G. Lundberg, James Macklin, Austin R. Mast, Peter E. Midford, István Mikó, Christopher J. Mungall, Anika Oellrich, David Osumi-Sutherland, Helen Parkinson, Martín J. Ramírez, Stefan Richter, Peter N. Robinson, Alan Ruttenberg, Katja S. Schulz, Erik Segerdell, Katja C. Seltmann, Michael J. Sharkey, Aaron D. Smith, Barry Smith, Chelsea D. Specht, R. Burke Squires, Robert W. Thacker, Anne Thessen, Jose Fernandez-Triana, Mauno Vihinen, Peter D. Vize, Lars Vogt, Christine E. Wall, Ramona L. Walls, Monte Westerfeld, Robert A. Wharton, Christian S. Wirkner, James B. Woolley, Matthew J. Yoder, Aaron M. Zorn, Paula Mabee, “Finding Our Way through Phenotypes”, PLoS Biology, January 2015, 13 (1). 133. Cecilia Arighi, Veronica Shamovsky, Anna Maria Masci, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, Darren A Natale, Cathy Wu, Peter D’Eustachio, “Toll-Like Receptor signaling in vertebrates: testing the integration of protein, complex, and pathway data in the Protein Ontology framework”, PLoS One, April 2015, PONE-D-14-45784R2. 134. Barry Smith, Sivaram Arabandi, Mathias Brochhausen, Michael Calhoun, Paolo Ciccarese, Scott Doyle, Bernard Gibaud, Ilya Goldberg, Charles E. Kahn, Jr., James Overton, John Tomaszewski, Metin Gurcan, “Biomedical Imaging Ontologies: A Survey and Proposal for Future Work”, Journal of Pathology Informatics, 2015, 6:37. PMC4485195 APPENDIX | VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
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135. Jingshan Huang, Fernando Gutierrez, Harrison J. Strachan, Dejing Dou, Weili Huang, Barry Smith, Judith A. Blake, Karen Eilbeck, Darren A. Natale, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Nisansa de Silva, Xiaowei Wang, Zixing Liu, Glen Borchert, Mnig Tan, Alan Ruttenberg, “OmniSearch: A semantic search system based on the Ontology for MIcroRNA Target (OMIT) for microRNA-target gene interaction data”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 7:24, May 4, 2016. 136. Anita Bandrowski, Ryan Brinkman, Mathias Brochhausen, Matthew H. Brush, Bill Bug†, Marcus C. Chibucos, Kevin Clancy, Mélanie Courtot, Dirk Derom, Michel Dumontier, Liju Fan, Jennifer Fostel, Gilberto Fragoso, Frank Gibson, Alejandra GonzalezBeltran, Melissa A. Haendel, Yongqun He, Mervi Heiskanen, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Mark Jensen, Yu Lin, Allyson L. Lister,Phillip Lord, James Malone, Elisabetta Manduchi, Monnie McGee, Norman Morrison, James A. Overton, Helen Parkinson, Bjoern Peters, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alan Ruttenberg, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Richard H. Scheuermann, Daniel Schober, Barry Smith, Larisa N. Soldatova, Christian J. Stoeckert Jr., Chris F. Taylor, Carlo Torniai, Jessica A. Turner, Randi Vita, Patricia L. Whetzel, Jie Zheng. “The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations”, PLoS ONE, 11(4): e0154556, April 29, 2016. 137. Jingshan Huang, Karen Eilbeck, Barry Smith, Judith A. Blake, Dejing Dou, Weili Huang, Darren A. Natale, Alan Ruttenberg, Jun Huan, Michael T. Zimmermann, Guoqian Jiang, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Harrison J. Strachan, Yongqun He, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, Zixing Liu, Glen M. Borchert and Ming Tan, “The Non-Coding RNA Ontology (NCRO): a comprehensive resource for the unification of non-coding RNA biology”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2016, 7:24, 4 May 2016 138. Andrew D. Spear, Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, “Functions in Basic Formal Ontology”, Applied Ontology, 11 (2), (2016), 103-128.
140. Jie Zheng, Marcelline R. Harris, Anna Maria Masci, Yu Lin, Alfred Hero, Barry Smith and Yongqun He, “The Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics (OBCS) for Standardized and Reproducible Statistical Analysis”, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 14 September 2016, 7(1):53. 141. Selja Seppälä, Alan Ruttenberg, Yonatan Schreiber, Barry Smith, “Definitions in Ontologies”, Cahiers de Lexicologie, 109, 2 (2016), 175-207. 142. Metin N. Gurcan, John Tomaszewski, James A. Overton, Scott Doyle, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, “Developing the Quantitative Histopathology Image Ontology (QHIO): A case study using the hot spot detection problem”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 66 (2017) 129–135.
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS 1.
Barry Smith, “Historicity, Value and Mathematics”, Analecta Husserliana, 4 (1975), 219–239.
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Barry Smith, “Matematyka a ontologiczna estetyka Ingardena”, Studia Filozoficzne, 1/122 (1976), 51–56.
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Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Against Idealism: Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl’s Ideas I”, Review of Metaphysics, 38 (1985), 763–793. Reprinted in: Karl Schuhmann, Selected Papers in Phenomenology, C. Leijenhorst and P. Steenbakkers (Eds.), Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer (2004), 35–59.
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Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Franz Brentano on the Ontology of Mind” (Review article on Brentano’s Deskriptive Psychologie), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 45 (1985), 627–644.
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Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith, “The Politics of National Diversity”, The Salisbury Review, 5 (1987), 33–37. Reprinted in: R. Scruton (Ed.), Conservative Thoughts, London: Claridge Press (1988), 101–114.
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Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons and Barry Smith, “Drei Briten in Kakanien”, interview by Axel Bühler in Information Philosophie, 3 (1987), 22–33.
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Johannes Marek and Barry Smith, “Einleitung zu A. Martys ‘Elemente der deskriptiven Psychologie‘”, Conceptus, 21 (1987), 33–48, editors’ introduction to extracts from Marty’s lectures (ibid., 49–66).
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Barry Smith, “On the Austrianness of Austrian Economics”, Critical Review, 4, 1-2 (1990), 212–238.
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139. Jingshan Huang, Karen Eilbeck, Barry Smith, Judith A. Blake, Dejing Dou, Weili Huang, Darren A. Natale, Alan Ruttenberg, Jun Huan, Michael T. Zimmermann, Guoqian Jiang, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Harrison Strachan, Nisansa de Silva, Mohan Vamsi Kasukurthi, Vikash Kumar Jha, Yongqun He, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, Zixing Liu, Glen Borchert, Ming Tan, “The Development of Non-Coding RNA Ontology”, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 15 (3), June 25, 2016. DOI: 10.1504/ IJDMB.2016.077072.
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Barry Smith, “The Question of Apriorism”, Austrian Economics Newsletter, (Fall 1990), 1–5. Reprinted in Rothbard e neo-hayekiani nella Scuola austriaca di economia (Special issue of Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine), Dario Antiseri, Enzo Di Nuoscio, Francesco Di Iorio (Eds.), June 2011, 59–68. Czech translation: “Apriorizmus v ekonómii”
10. Barry Smith, “Puntel on Truth, Or: Old Idealistic Wine in New Semantic Bottles”, Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften. Streitforum für Erwägungskultur, 3 (1992), 166–169. 11. Barry Smith, “No Philosophy. No Transformation. No Theses” [peer commentary on Herta Nagl-Docekal, “The Feminist Transformation of Philosophy”], Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften. Streitforum für Erwägungskultur, 4 (1992), 571–573. 12. Barry Smith, “Report on the International Brentano Conference. Graz, 25–26 May 1990”, in Nachrichten der Forschungsstelle und des Dokumentationszentrums für Österreichische Philosophie, 2 (1990), 9–12. 13. Barry Smith, “First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science held at UB”, UB International, 3/2 (1994), 4, 7. 14. Barry Smith, “On Feminist Nomadism”, Free Inquiry, 15/2 (1995), 30–31. 15. Ellen Klein and Barry Smith, “Philosophy and Feminist Politics: A Brief Guide”, Free Inquiry, 16/1 (1995/96), 60–61. 16. Barry Smith, “Questionnaire on Cognitive Science”, Kog-Bit. Journal aus dem Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft der Universität Hamburg, 13 (1996), 12. 17. Barry Smith and Peter Baumann, “Von Kant über Pol Pot zu Derrida”, KogBit. Journal aus dem Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft der Universität Hamburg, 14 (1996), 8–11. Revised version as “The Worst Cognitive Performance in History”, Noûsletter, 1997, 13–15. 18. Barry Smith, “Bringing the Humanities Down to Earth”, Academic Questions, 10 (4), 1997, 58-62.
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19. Barry Smith, “Applied Ontology: A New Discipline is Born”, Philosophy Today, vol. 12, number 29 (1998), 5–6. Italian translation as “Ontologo, il mestiere del futoro: È nata l’ontologia applicata”, in: Il Sole 24 Ore (May 24, 1998), p. 35. 20. Barry Smith, “Qu’est-ce qu’une niche? Biologie et Ontologie formelle”, Biofutur. Le Mensuel européen de Biotechnologie, 181 (September 1998), 13. 21. Barry Smith, “Presidential Teaching Tool”, Nousletter (Buffalo), (July 1999), 3–4. 22. Reinhild Steingröver-McRae and Barry Smith, “The Last Days of the Human Race”, Austria Kultur, 9: 5 (September/October 1999), 16–17. 23. Barry Smith, “Revisiting the Derrida Affair,” interview by J. Sims, Sophia, 38: 2 (October 1999). 24. Barry Smith, “Obiektywnosc percepcji zmyslowej”, Roczniki Filozoficzne 49: 1 (2001), 63–75. 25. Barry Smith, “From Classical Metaphysics to Medical Informatics”, Humboldt-Kosmos, 79 (July 2002), 31–32. Italian translation as: “Dalla metafisica classica all’informatica medica” in Maurizio Ferraris (Ed.), Ontologia, Naples: Guida (2003), 154–158. 26. Barry Smith, “Groups, Sets, and Wholes”, Revista di estetica, N.S. 24/3 (2003), 129–130. 27. Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Towards Industrial Strength Philosophy: How Analytical Ontology Can Help Medical Informatics”, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 28 (2003), 106–111. Italian translation as: “Verso una filosofia al servizio dell’industria: l’utilità dell’ontologia analitica per l’informatica medica”, Sistemi Intelligenti, 15: 3 (2003), 407–417. 28. Barry Smith, “The Measure of Civilizations”, Academic Questions, 16: 1 (2002/03), 16–22. Russian translation 29. Barry Smith, “Il senso della vita, oltre ogni nichilismo”, Il Domenicale (3 May 2003), 5. 30. Interview with Barry Smith, COSIT Features, 2003 (on-line interview series on spatial information theory). 31. Barry Smith, “Soldi, elezioni e molecole”, Il Sole 24 Ore (7 December 2003), 37. 32. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “E il 16º giorno nacque un nuovo individuo”, Il Sole 24 Ore (21 December 2003). 33. Barry Smith and Enrico Berti, “Le prime cellule non sono già umane? No, altrimenti saremmo nati due volte”, Il Sole 24 Ore (28 December 2003). 34. Barry Smith, “Die Ontologie als Grundlagenwissenschaft der Informatik”, interview in Information Philosophie, 3 (2003), 120–123.
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35. Barry Smith and Dirk Siebert, “Warum benutzen Ärzte keine Computer?”, Deutsches Ärzteblatt/Praxis Computer (January 2004), 18–20. 36. Barry Smith, “Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne”, Interdisciplinary Phenomenology (Kyoto), 1 (2004), 31–44. 37. Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters and Dirk Siebert, “Was die philosophische Ontologie zur biomedizinischen Informatik beitragen kann”, Information: Wissenschaft und Praxis, 55: 3 (2004), 143–146. 38. Barry Smith, Maurizio Ferraris and Leonardo Zaibert, “La costituzione ontologica”, Il sole 24 Ore (27 June 2004). 39. Barry Smith, “Niente è più sicuro della morte e delle tasse”, Il sole 24 Ore (7 December 2004). 40. James J. Cimino and Barry Smith, “Introduction: International Medical Informatics Association Working Group 6 and the 2005 Rome Conference”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006; 39(3): 249–251. 41. Barry Smith, “Philosophical Flaws in Standardization”, The Risks of Freedom Briefing, 26 (2006), 3. 42. Thaddeus H. Grasela, Jill Fiedler-Kelly, Brenda Cirincione, Darcy Hitchcock, Kathleen Reitz, Susanne Sardella, and Barry Smith, “Informatics: The Fuel For Pharmacometric Analysis”, AAPS Journal, 2007; March, 9(1), E84–E91. PMC2751306 43. Barry Smith, “The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry in 2008”, MMHCC (Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium) Newsletter, March 2008, 1–2. 44. Robert Arp and Barry Smith, “Ontologies of Cellular Networks”, Science Signalling, Vol. 1, Issue 50 (December 2008), 1-3, DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.150mr2. 45. Barry Smith, Louis J. Goldberg, Alan Ruttenberg and Michael Glick, “Ontology and the Future of Dental Research Informatics”, The Journal of the American Dental Association, October, 141 (10), 2010, 1173–75.
47. Barry Smith, Louis J. Goldberg, Alan Ruttenberg and Michael Glick, “Ontology and Research: Authors’ Response”, The Journal of the American Dental Association, 142(3), 2011, 252–54. 48. Fabian Neuhaus, Elizabeth Florescu, Antony Galton, Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Leo Obrst, Arturo Sánchez-Ruíz, Amanda Vizedom, Peter Yim and Barry Smith, “Creating the Ontologists of the Future”, Applied Ontology 6 (2011), 91–98. 49. Barry Smith, “Guest Editorial: caBIG has another fundamental problem: it relies on ‘incoherent’ messaging standard”, The Cancer Letter, 37: 16, April 22, 2011, 1 and 5–6. 50. Stefano Borgo, Riichiro Mizoguchi and Barry Smith, “On the Ontology of Functions”, Applied Ontology, 6 (2011), 99–104. 51. Andreas Tolk and Barry Smith, “Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue on Command and Control Ontology”, International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 4 (3), 2011, 209–214. 52. Dipak Kalra, Mark Musen, Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, “Policy Brief on Semantic Interoperability”, Interoperability Reviews: ARGOS Trans-Atlantic Observatory Policy Briefs, Washington, DC: American Medical Informatics Association, Summer 2011, Vol. 2 No. 1. 53. Georg Fuellen, Melanie Boerries, Hauke Busch, Aubrey de Grey, Udo Hahn, Thomas Hiller, Andreas Hoeflich, Ludger Jansen, Georges E. Janssens, Christoph Kaleta, Anne C. Meinema, Sascha Schäuble, Paul N. Schofield, Barry Smith, Jürgen Sühnel, Julio Vera, Wolfgang Wagner, Eva C. Wonne, Daniel Wuttke, “In-Silico-Approaches and the Role of Ontologies in Aging Research”, Rejuvenation Research, 2013 Dec;16(6):540-6. 54. Barry Smith, “It Usually Begins with the Gene Ontology”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 2013, 52 (6), 559-60. Comment on P. L. Elkin, S. H. Brown and G. Wright, “Biomedical Informatics: We Are What We Publish”, Methods of Information in Medicine, 2013, 52 (6), 538-546. 55. Carolyn Korsmeyer and Barry Smith, “Comment: Kolnai’s Disgust”, Emotion Review, 6 (3), 2014, 221–222. 56. An interview with the Editor of The Monist, May 31, 2015, OUPblog. 57. “Faculty Interview: Barry Smith”, NousLetter, 21, Summer 2015, 13-17. 58. “The Curious Case of the Complicated Border: The Story of Baarle,” Dutch International Society Magazine, 47 (4), 2016, 11-17.
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46. Barry Smith and Richard H. Scheuermann, “Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Research”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44:1 (2011), 3–7.
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Barry Smith, “Roman Ingarden: Ontological Foundations for Literary Theory”, in J. Odmark (Ed.), Language, Literature and Meaning I: Problems of Literary Theory, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1979, 373–390.
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Barry Smith, “Kafka and Brentano: A Study in Descriptive Psychology”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, 113–161. Revised version as: “Brentano and Kafka”, Axiomathes, 8 (1997), 83–104. French translation as: “Kafka et Brentano”, Philosophiques, 26/2 (1999), 349–371.
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Barry Smith, “The Production of Ideas: Notes on Austrian Intellectual History from Bolzano to Wittgenstein”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, 211–234.
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Barry Smith and Kevin Mulligan, “Pieces of a Theory”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology, Munich: Philosophia, 1982, 15–109.
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Barry Smith, “Introduction to Adolf Reinach, ‘On the Theory of the Negative Judgment’”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology, Munich: Philosophia, 1982, 289–313.
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Barry Smith, “Meinen und Vorstellen in der literarischen Gegenstandskonstitution”, in G. Wolandt (Ed.), Kunst und Kunstforschung. Beiträge zur Ästhetik, Bonn: Bouvier, 1983, 49–61.
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Barry Smith, “Summaries and Note: On the Political Economy of Karl Wittgenstein”, in J. C. Nyíri (Ed.), Karl Wittgenstein: PoliticoEconomic Writings, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984, 197–227.
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Barry Smith, “Wittgenstein und das ethische Gesetz”, in D. Birnbacher and A. Burkhardt (Eds.), Sprachspiel und Methode. Zum Stand der Wittgenstein-Diskussion, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1985, 191–211.
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Barry Smith, “Preface: Austrian Economics from Menger to Hayek”, in Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith (Eds.), Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background, New York: New York University Press, London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986, v–viii.
10. Barry Smith, “Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy”, in Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith (Eds.), Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background, New York: New York University Press, London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986, 1–36, reprinted in the series Routledge Revivals, London: Routledge, 2010. 11. Barry Smith, “The Theory of Value of Christian von Ehrenfels”, in R. Fabian (Ed.), Christian von Ehrenfels: Leben und Werk, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986, 150–171. 12. Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Mach und Ehrenfels: Über Gestaltqualitäten und das Problem der Abhängigkeit”, in R. Fabian (Ed.), Christian von Ehrenfels: Leben und Werk, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986, 85–111. Revised and expanded English version as: “Mach and Ehrenfels: The Foundations of Gestalt Theory”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory, Munich and Vienna: Philosophia, 1988, 124–157. Romanian translation as: “Mach şi Ehrenfels. Fundamentele teoriei gestaltiste”, in Constantin Stoenescu, Ion Tănăsescu (Eds.), Filosofia Austriacă, Bucharest: Pelican, 2005, 262–294. 13. Barry Smith, “Materials Towards a History of Speech Act Theory”, in A. Eschbach (Ed.), Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987, 125–152. Revised and expanded version as: “Towards a History of Speech Act Theory”, in A. Burkhardt (Ed.), Speech Acts, Meanings and Intentions. Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1990, 29–61. Italian translation as: “Per una storia della teoria degli atti linguistici”, in: Il realismo fenomenologico. Sulla filosofia dei circoli di Monaco e Gottinga, Stefano Besoli e Luca Guidetti (Eds.), Macerata: Quodlibet, 2000, 385–418. Spanish translation as: “Una breve historia de la teoría de los actos de habla”, in Pragmatica: Desarrollos téoricos y debates, translated by Jorge Gómez, Quito: Edicion Abya-Yala, 2002, 13–82. 14. Barry Smith, “Husserl, Language and the Ontology of the Act”, in D. Buzzetti and M. Ferriani (Eds.), Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis of Language, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987, 205–227. 15. Barry Smith, “On the Cognition of States of Affairs”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Speech Act and Sachverhalt: Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Nijhoff, 1987, 189–225.
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Italian translation as: “Adolf Reinach e la fondazione della fenomenologia realistica”, Paradigmi, 5 (1987), 229–241 and 6 (1987), 485–507. 16. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Adolf Reinach: An Intellectual Biography”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Speech Act and Sachverhalt: Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Nijhoff, 1987, 1–27. 17. Barry Smith, “Austrian Origins of Logical Positivism”, in B. Gower (Ed.), Logical Positivism in Perspective, London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987, Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1988, 35–68. Reprinted in: K. Szaniawski (Ed.), The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1989, 19–53. 18. Barry Smith, “Gestalt Theory: An Essay in Philosophy”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory, Munich and Vienna: Philosophia, 1988, 11–81. 19. Barry Smith, “Knowing How vs. Knowing That”, in J. C. Nyíri and Barry Smith (Eds.), Practical Knowledge. Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills, London/Sydney/New York: Croom Helm, 1988, 1–16. 20. Barry Smith, “Practices of Art”, in J. C. Nyíri and Barry Smith (Eds.), Practical Knowledge. Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills, London/Sydney/New York: Croom Helm, 1988, 172–209.
22. Barry Smith, “Kasimir Twardowski: An Essay on the Borderlines of Psychology, Ontology and Logic”, K. Szaniawski (Ed.), The Vienna Circle and the Philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1989, 313–373. Revised version as: “Kasimir Twardowski: On Content and Object ”, chapter 6 of Barry Smith, Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 1994, 160-200. 23. Barry Smith, “Constraints on Correspondence” in Traditionen und Perspektiven der analytischen Philosophie. Festschrift für Rudolf Haller, H. Rutte, W. Sauer and W. Gombocz (Eds.), Vienna: Hölder/Pichler/Tempsky, 1989, 415–430. 24. Barry Smith, “Logica Kirchbergensis”, in P. Klein (Ed.), Praktische Logik. Traditionen und Tendenzen, Abhandlungen eines Seminars beim 13. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel 1988 (Veröffentlichungen der Joachim-Jungius Gesellschaft Hamburg, 61), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989, 123–145. 25. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Vorwort”, editors’ forward to vol. I of Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith (Eds.), Munich/Hamden/Vienna: Philosophia, 1989, XIV–XVIII. 26. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Adolf Reinach (1884-1917)”, editors’ introduction to vol. II of Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith (Eds.), Munich/Hamden/Vienna: Philosophia, 1989, 613–626. 27. Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Kommentar und Textkritik”, critical apparatus to vol. II of Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith (Eds.), Munich/Hamden/Vienna: Philosophia, 1989, 627–829. 28. Barry Smith, “The Philosophy of Austrian Economics: Principles and Provocations”, in S. C. Littlechild (Ed.), Austrian Economics, vol. I, Aldershot/Brookfield VT: Edward Elgar, 1990, 527–538. 29. Barry Smith, “Brentano and Marty: An Inquiry into Being and Truth”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1990, 111–149. Revised version as: “Anton Marty: On Being and Truth”, chapter 4 of Barry Smith, Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 1994. 30. Barry Smith, “On the Phases of Reism”, in J. Wolenski, Ed., Kotarbinski: Logic, Semantics and Ontology, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1990, 137–184. Reprinted in: Actions, Products, and Things. Brentano and Polish Philosophy, A. Chrudzimski and D. Łukasiewicz (Eds.), Frankfurt: ontos, 2006, 115–176.
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21. Barry Smith, “Logic and Formal Ontology”, in J. N. Mohanty and W. McKenna (Eds.), Husserl’s Phenomenology: A Textbook, Lanham: University Press of America, 1989, 29–67. Revised version in: Manuscrito, 23: 2, 2000, 275–323. Italian translation as: “Logica e ontologia formale nelle Logische Untersuchungen di Edmund Husserl”, Rivista di Filosofia, 83, 1991, 53–70. Spanish translation as: “Lógica y ontología formal”, Grupo de Acción Filosófica (GAF), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004. Russian translation
31. Jean Petitot and Barry Smith, “New Foundations for Qualitative Physics”, in J. E. Tiles, G. T. McKee and C. G. Dean (Eds.), Evolving Knowledge in Natural Science and Artificial Intelligence, London: Pitman Publishing, 1990, 231–249. Russian translation 32. Barry Smith, “Grundlegung eines fallibilistichen Apriorismus”, in N. Leser, J. Seifert and K. Pflitzner (Eds.), Die Gedankenwelt Sir Karl Poppers. Kritischer Rationalismus im Dialog, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1991, 393–411. English translation as: “In Defense of Extreme (Fallibilistic) Apriorism”, Journal of Libertarian Studies 12 (1996), 179–192. Russian translation 33. Barry Smith, “Relevance, Relatedness and Restricted Set Theory”, in G. Schurz and G. J. W. Dorn (Eds.), Advances in Scientific Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Paul Weingartner, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1991, 45–56. 34. Barry Smith, “Characteristica Universalis”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Language, Truth and Ontology (Philosophical Studies Series), Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1992, 48–77. Danish translation in: Almen Semiotik, 14 (1998), 158–187. 35. Barry Smith, “Austrian Philosophy and Austrian Economics”, in J. Lee Auspitz, et al. (Eds.), Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1992, 245–272. 36. Barry Smith, “Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Reality”, in N. Guarino and R. Poli (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, Padova: Institute for Systems Theory and Biomedical Engineering of the Italian National Research Council, 1993, 51–68. Polish translation as: “Ontologia i logiczna analiza rzeczywistosci”, in Filozofia Nauki, 2 (1994), 5–22.
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38. Barry Smith, “Husserl’s Theory of Meaning and Reference”, in L. Haaparanta (Ed.), Mind, Meaning and Mathematics. Essays on the Philosophy of Husserl and Frege, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1994, 163–183. 39. Barry Smith, “Filozofia Austriacka” in T. Lubowiecki and A. Rojszczak (Eds.), Filozofia Austriacka (Principia VIII–IX), Cracow: Aureus S.C., 1994, 19–50. Polish translation of Chapter 1 of Barry Smith, Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 1994. 40. Josef Seifert and Barry Smith, “The Truth about Fiction”, in W. Galewicz, E. Ströker and W. Strozewski (Eds.), Kunst und Ontologie. Für Roman Ingarden zum 100. Geburtstag, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994, 97–118. 41. Barry Smith and David W. Smith, “Introduction” to Barry Smith and David W. Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 1–44. 42. Barry Smith, “Common Sense”, in Barry Smith and David W. Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 394–436. 43. Barry Smith, “The Neurath–Haller Thesis: Austria and the Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, in K. Lehrer and J. C. Marek (Eds.), Austrian Philosophy Past and Present (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1996, 1–20. Reprinted as: “Austria and the Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, in A. Chrudzimski and W. Huemer (Eds.), Phenomenology and Analysis. Essays on Central European Philosophy, Frankfurt and Lancaster: ontos, 2004, 33–56. French version as: “L’Autriche et la naissance de la philosophie scientifique”, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 109 (1995), 61–71. 44. Barry Smith, “Foreword” to Wojciech Zelaniec, The Recalcitrant Synthetic A Priori, Lublin: Artom, 1996, 7–8. 45. Barry Smith and Leonardo Zaibert, “Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Real Estate”, in Roberto Casati (Ed.), Shadows and SocioEconomic Units. Foundations of Formal Geography, Department of Geoinformation, Technical University of Vienna, 1996, 151–155. 46. Barry Smith, “Pleasure and Its Modifications: Stephan Witasek and the Aesthetics of the Grazer Schule”, in L. Albertazzi (Ed.), The Philosophy of Alexius Meinong (Axiomathes VII, nos. 1–2), 1996, 203–232. 47. Barry Smith, “The Connectionist Mind: A Study of Hayekian Psychology”, in S. F. Frowen (Ed.), Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher: A Critical Retrospect, London: Macmillan, 1997, 9–29. French translation as: “L’esprit connexionniste: une étude de la psychologie de Hayek”, Intellectica, 28: 1, 1999, 93–115. APPENDIX | VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 4 2017
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48. Jean Petitot and Barry Smith, “Physics and the Phenomenal World”, in R. Poli and P. M. Simons (Eds.), Formal Ontology, Dordrecht/ Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1997, 233–254. Russian translation in: Ophyr, n.d. 49. Barry Smith, “Boundaries: An Essay in Mereotopology”, in L. H. Hahn (Ed.), The Philosophy of Roderick Chisholm (Library of Living Philosophers), Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court, 1997, 534–561. 50. Barry Smith, “Truth and the Visual Field”, in Naturalizing Phenomenology. Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, edited by J. Petitot, F. J. Varela, B. Pachoud and J. M. Roy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, 317–329. Preprinted in: Carola Eschenbach and Wolfgang Heydrich (Eds.), Parts and Wholes. Integrity and Granularity, Hamburg: Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, 1995, 109–118. Italian translation as: “La verità e il campo visivo”, Paradigmi, 17, 1999, 48–62. French translation as : “La vérité et le champ visuel”, in Naturaliser la phénoménologie: Husserlianisme et science cognitive, Paris: CNRS Editions, 2002, 411–426. 51. Artur Rojszczak and Barry Smith, “Urteilstheorien und Sachverhalte”, in Otto Neumaier (Ed.), Satz und Sachverhalt, Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2000, 9–72. 52. Barry Smith, “Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Psychology”, in Andrew Frank, Jonathan Raper and Jean-Paul Cheylan (Eds.), The Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units (GISDATA 8), London: Taylor and Francis, 2001, 79–97. German version as: “Gegenstände und ihre Umwelten: Von Aristoteles zur ökologischen Ontologie”, in Barbara Boisits and Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (Eds.), Einheit und Vielheit. Organologische Denkmodelle in der Moderne, Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2000, 35–64. 53. Barry Smith, “Aristoteles, Kant und die Quantenphysik”, in Ruth Hagengruber (Ed.), Philosophie und Wissenschaft, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002, 79–97.
55. Artur Rojszczak and Barry Smith, “Theories of Judgment”, in Thomas Baldwin (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy 18701945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 157–173. 56. Barry Smith, “John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), John Searle, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 1–33. Polish translation as: “John Searle: Od aktów mowy do rzeczywistości społecznej”, Roczniki Filozoficzne, 51: 1, 2003, 265–292. Italian translation as: “Un’aporia nella costruzione della realtà sociale. Naturalismo e realismo in John R. Searle”, in: Paolo Di Lucia (Ed.), Ontologia sociale: Potere deontico e regole costitutive, Macerata: Quodlibet, 2003, 137-152. Translation appeared in a partial version also in Il Sole-24 Ore, Sunday, 7 December 2003, n. 335, p. 32. Russian translation 57. Barry Smith and Leo Zaibert, “Real Estate: Foundations of the Ontology of Property”, in Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Erik Stubjkaer and Christoph Schlieder (Eds.), The Ontology and Modelling of Real Estate Transactions, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 51–67. 58. Barry Smith, “Aristoteles 2002”, in T. Buchheim, H. Flashar and R. A. H. King (Eds.), Kann man heute noch etwas anfangen mit Aristoteles?, Hamburg: Meiner, 2003, 3–38. 59. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “A Theory of Granular Partitions”, Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Matthew Duckham, Michael F. Goodchild and Michael F. Worboys (Eds.), London: Taylor & Francis, 2003, 117–151. Revised version in K. Munn and B. Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 125–158. Revised German version as “Granulare Partitionen”, in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften – Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 67–84. 60. Barry Smith, “The Ecological Approach to Information Processing”, in Kristóf Nyíri (Ed.), Mobile Learning: Essays on Philosophy, Psychology and Education, Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2003, 17–24. Hungarian translation: “Az adatfeldolgozás ökológiai megközelítése”, Proceedings of the Conference on Philosophy, Psychology, Culture, held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 29-30 November 2002. 61. Barry Smith, “Ontology”, in Luciano Floridi (Ed.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 155–166. Reprinted in Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler (Eds.), The Furniture of the World. Essays in Ontology and Metaphysics (Rodopi Studies in Philosophy, vol. 9), Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012, 47–68.
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54. Gerald J. Erion and Barry Smith, “Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix”, in W. Irwin (Ed.), Philosophy and The Matrix, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 2002, 16–27.
Spanish translation as: “Ontología” in G. Hurtado and O. Nudler (Eds.), El mobiliario del mundo. Ensayos de ontología y metafísica, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de México, 2007, 47–71. Italian translation as: “Ontologia e sistemi informativi” in: Networks, 6, 2006, 137–164. 62. Barry Smith, “Kraus on Weininger, Kraus on Women, Kraus on Serbia” in Wolfgang Huemer and Marc-Oliver Schuster (Eds.): Writing the Austrian Traditions: Relations Between Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Frankfurt/ Lancaster: Ontos, 2003, 81–100. 63. Barry Smith, “Kamikaze – und der Westen”, in Geog Meggle (Ed.), Terror und der Krieg gegen ihn: Öffentliche Reflexionen, Paderborn: Mentis, 2003, 107–118. 64. Artur Rojszczak and Barry Smith, “Truthmakers, Truthbearers and the Objectivity of Truth”, in J. Hintikka, et al. (Eds.), Philosophy and Logic: In Search of the Polish Tradition, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 2003, 229–268. 65. Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Barry Smith, “Brentano’s Ontology: From Conceptualism to Realism”, in Dale Jacquette (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 175–194. Reprinted in Brentano (Major Works series), Cambridge University Press and Routledge, in press. 66. Carolyn Korsmeyer and Barry Smith, “Visceral Values: Aurel Kolnai on Disgust,” in Aurel Kolnai, On Disgust, Chicago and La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 2004, 1–23. 67. Barry Smith, “Carving Up Reality”, in M. Gorman and J. Sanford (Eds.), Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 225–237. Spanish translation as “Tallando la realidad”, in Juan González (Ed.), Perspectivas contemporáneas sobre la cognición: percepción, categorización y conceptualización, Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 2006, 53-68.
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68. David M. Mark and Barry Smith, “A Science of Topography: From Qualitative Ontology to Digital Representations”, in Michael P. Bishop and John F. Shroder (Eds.), Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology, Chichester, England: SpringerPraxis, 2004, 75–100. 69. David Mark, Barry Smith, Max Egenhofer, Stephen Hirtle “UCGIS Emerging Research Themes: Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science”, in: R. B. McMaster and E. L. Usery (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2004, 335–350. 70. Barry Smith, “Why Polish Philosophy Does Not Exist”, J. J. Jadacki and J. Pasniczek (Eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw School: The New Generation (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 89), 2006, 19–39. Polish translation: “Dlaczego nie istnieje filozofia polska?”, Filozofia Nauki, 5 (1997), 5–15. 71. Barry Smith and Wolfgang Grassl, “On Creativity and the Philosophy of the Supranational State”, in Tamás Demeter (Ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy: In Honour of J. C. Nyíri, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2004, 25–39. 72. Barry Smith, “La signification de la vie, et comment il convient d’évaluer les civilisations”, in Histoire du Libéralisme en Europe, Philippe Nemo and Jean Petitot (Eds.), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006, 1399–1411. Italian translation as “Il significato della vita: come valurare una civiltà” in P. Nemo and J. Petitot (Eds.), Storia del liberalismo in Europa, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2013, 1225–1234. English original as: The Meaning of Life and the Measure of Civilizations (Brochure 9 in the series The History of Liberalism in Europe), Paris: CREA/CREPHE, 2002, 22 pp. 73. Barry Smith and David Mark, “Geographical Categories: An Ontological Retrospective”, in Peter Fisher (Ed.), Classics from the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, London: Taylor and Francis, 2006, 507–512. 74. Leo Obrst, Werner Ceusters, Inderjeet Mani, Steve Ray, Barry Smith, “The Evaluation of Ontologies: Toward Improved Semantic Interoperability”, in C. Baker and K.-H. Cheung, Ed., Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences, New York: Springer Verlag, 2007, 139–158. 75. Barry Smith and Jonathan Simon, “Truthmaker Explanations”, in: Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Frankfurt/ Lancaster/New Brunswik: Ontos, 2007, 79-98. French translation: “Explications vérifactionnistes” in Philosophiques, 38 (1), 2011, 277–194. 76. Leo Zaibert and Barry Smith, “The Varieties of Normativity: An Essay on Social Ontology”, in Savas L. Tsohatzidis (Ed.), Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007, 155–174.
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77. Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Ontology as the Core Discipline of Biomedical Informatics: Legacies of the Past and Recommendations for the Future Direction of Research”, in Computing, Information, Cognition, Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Susan Stuart (Eds.), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, 104–122. 78. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Referent Tracking for Corporate Memories”, in P. Rittgen (Ed.), Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction, Hershey, New York and London: Information Science Reference, 2007, 34–46. 79. Barry Smith and Bert R. E. Klagges, “Ontologie des menschlichen Lebewesens: Substanz und Funktion”, in L. Honnefelder, M. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Naturalismus als Paradigma – Wie weit reicht die naturwissenschaftliche Erklärung des Menschen?, Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2007, 61-75. 80. Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard, “Ontologie des Embryos: Wann beginnt menschliches Leben?”, in L. Honnefelder, M. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Naturalismus als Paradigma - Wie weit reicht die naturwissenschaftliche Erklärung des Menschen?, Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2007, 196-204. 81. Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “Persistence and Ontological Pluralism”, in C. Kanzian (Ed.), Persistence, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos, 2008, 33-48. 82. Fabian Neuhaus and Barry Smith, “Modelling Principles and Methodologies: Relations in Anatomical Ontologies”, in: Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock (Eds.), Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice, New York: Springer, 2008, 289-305. 83. Melissa A. Haendel, Fabian Neuhaus, David Osumi-Sutherland, Paula M. Mabee, José L. V. Mejino Jr., Chris J. Mungall, Barry Smith, “CARO: The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology”, in: Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock (Eds.), Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice, New York: Springer, 2008, 327-349.
85. Barry Smith and Mathias Brochhausen, “Establishing and Harmonizing Ontologies in an Interdisciplinary Health Care and Clinical Research Environment”, in: B. Blobel P. Pharow and M. Nerlich (Eds.), eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics on the Edge (Global Expert Summit Textbook, Studies in Health, Technology and Informatics, 134), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008, 219-234. 86. Mathias Brochhausen, Gabriele Weiler, Luis Martín, Cristian Cocos, Holger Stenzhorn, Norbert Graf, Martin Dörr, Manolis Tsiknakis, and Barry Smith, “Applications of the ACGT Master Ontology on Cancer”, R. Meersman, Z. Tari, and P. Herrero (Eds.): Proceedings of 4th International IFIP Workshop On Semantic Web and Web Semantics (OTM 2008: Workshops), LNCS 5333, 2008, 1046–1055. 87. Barry Smith, “Informatica”, in M. Ferraris (Eds.), Storia dell’Ontologia, Milan: Bompiani, 2008, 503-530. 88. Barry Smith, “Realitätsrepräsentation: Das Ziel der Ontologie”, in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften - Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 31-46. 89. Barry Smith “The Benefits of Realism: A Realist Logic with Applications”, in K. Munn and B. Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos Walter de Gruyter, 2008, 109-124. 90. Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith, “Ontological Relations”, in K. Munn and B. Smith (Eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Frankfurt/Lancaster: ontos/Walter de Gruyter, 2008, 219-234. German version “Ontologische Relationen”, in L. Jansen and B. Smith (Eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften - Informationstechnik (UTB Forum), Zurich: vdf, 2008, 155-172. 91. Richard H. Scheuermann, Megan Kong, Carl Dahlke, Jennifer Cai, Jamie Lee, Yu Qian, Burke Squires, Patrick Dunn, Jeff Wiser, Herb Hagler, Barry Smith, David Karp, “Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation of Experiment Metadata in Biological Data Mining”, Biological Data Mining, Jake Chen and Stefano Lonardi (Eds.), Boca Raton: Chapman Hall / Taylor and Francis, September 2009, 529-559. 92. Lindsay Grey Cowell and Barry Smith, “Infectious Disease Ontology”, in Vitali Sintchenko (Ed.), Infectious Disease Informatics, New York: Springer, December 2009, 373-395. 93. Barry Smith, “Signs and Meanings”, Signs and Meanings: Five Questions, Peer Bundgaard and Frederik Stjernfelt (Eds.), Copenhagen: Automatic Press, September 2009, 199-206. Appendix: Publications by Barry Smith
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84. Barry Smith, “Searle and De Soto: The New Ontology of the Social World”, Barry Smith, David Mark and Isaac Ehrlich (Eds.), The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality, Chicago: Open Court, 2008, 35-51. Preliminary version as “The Foundations of Social Coordination: John Searle and Hernando de Soto”, in N. Psarros (Ed.), Facets of Sociality, Frankfurt: Ontos, 2007, 3-22.
94. Barry Smith, “Metaphysics”, Metaphysics: Five Questions, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Ed.), Copenhagen: Automatic Press, July 2010, 143-158. 95. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Switching Partners: Dancing with the Ontological Engineers”, in Thomas Batcherer and Roderick Coover (Eds.), Switching Codes. Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 103-124. 96. Barry Smith, “Preface”, in G. Sartor, et al. (Eds.), Approaches to Legal Ontologies. Theories, Domains, Methodologies, New York: Springer, 2011, p. 5. 97. Dipak Kalra, Mark Musen M, Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Georges De Moor, “ARGOS Policy Brief on Semantic Interoperability”, in: G. De Moor (Ed.), Transatlantic Cooperation Surrounding Health Related Information and Communication Technology (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 170), 2011, 1-15. 98. Barry Smith and Wojciech Żełaniec, “Laws of Essence or Constitutive Rules? Reinach vs. Searle on the Ontology of Social Entities”, in Eidetica del Diritto e Ontologia Sociale. Il Realismo di Adolf Reinach, Francesca De Vecchi (Ed.), Milan: Mimesis, 2012, 83-108. 99. Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor and Werner Ceusters, “Human Action in the Healthcare Domain: A Critical Analysis of HL7’s Reference Information Model” in C. Svennerlind, J. Almäng, R. Ingthorsson (Eds.), Johanssonian Investigations. Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday, Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2013, 554-573. 100. Barry Smith, “Austrian and Hungarian Philosophy: On the Logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler”, in Anne Reboul (Ed.), Mind, Values and Metaphysics. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan, Vol. 1, New York: Springer, 2014, 387-486. Hungarian translation as: “Osztrák és magyar filozófia: Wittgenstein és Pauler logikájáról”, Századvég, 17 (65), 2012, 5-30.
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102. Barry Smith, “The Relevance of Philosophical Ontology to Information and Computer Science”, Philosophy, Computing and Information Science, Ruth Hagengruber and Uwe Riss (Eds.), London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014, 75-83. 103. Barry Smith, “Values in Contexts: An Ontological Theory”, Inherent and Instrumental Values. Excursions in Value Inquiry, G. John M. Abbarno (Ed.), Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2015, 17-29. 104. Barry Smith, “Towards a Science of Emerging Media”, Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application, edited by J. E. Katz and J. Floyd, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2015, 29-48.
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1.
Barry Smith, “Wittgenstein and the Background of Austrian Philosophy”, in E. Leinfellner, et al. (Eds.), Wittgenstein and His Impact on Contemporary Thought, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978, 31–35.
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Barry Smith, “On Tractarian Law”, in H. Berghel, et al. (Eds.), Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle and Critical Rationalism, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979, 31–35.
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Barry Smith, “On Making Sense of Ingarden”, in Maria Gołaszewska (Ed.), Crisis of Aesthetics, Cracow: Jagiellonian University, 1979, 283–289.
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Barry Smith, “It”, in R. Haller and W. Grassl (Eds.), Language, Logic and Philosophy, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1980, 342–345.
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Barry Smith, “Some Formal Moments of Truth”, in W. Leinfellner, et al. (Eds.), Language and Ontology, Vienna: Hölder-PichlerTempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982, 186–190.
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Barry Smith, “Acts and their Objects”, in P. Weingartner and H. Czermak (Eds.), Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983, 38–41.
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Barry Smith, “Logical and Philosophical Remarks on Parts and Wholes”, in P. Sällström (Ed.), An Inventory of Present Thinking about Parts and Wholes, vol. I, Stockholm: Forskningsradsnämnden, 1983, 123–128.
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Barry Smith, “Reflections on Dependence”, in P. Sällström (Ed.), An Inventory of Present Thinking about Parts and Wholes, vol. II, Stockholm: Forskningsradsnämnden, 1984, 29–42.
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Barry Smith, “How not to talk about what does not exist”, in R. Haller (Ed.), Aesthetics, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984, 194–196.
10. Barry Smith, “On the Structures of Perceptual Gestalten”, in R. M. Chisholm, et al. (Eds.), Philosophy of Mind. Philosophy of Psychology, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1985, 301–304. 11. Wolfgang Grassl and Barry Smith, “A Theory of Austria”, in J. C. Nyíri (Ed.), From Bolzano to Wittgenstein: The Tradition of Austrian Philosophy, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986, 11–30. 12. Barry Smith, “Wittgensteinian Philosophy and the Culture of the Commentary”, in R. Haller and J. Brandl (Eds.), Wittgenstein: Towards a Re-Evaluation, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1990, vol. 2, 247–254. 13. “Thesen zur Nichtübersetzbarkeit der deutschen Philosophie”, in D. Papenfuss and O. Pöggeler (Eds.), Zur philosophischen Aktualität Heideggers, vol. 3, Im Spiegel der Welt: Sprache, Übersetzung, Auseinandersetzung, Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1992, 125–147. Russian translation: “К непереводимости немецкой философии”, Logos, 5 (6), 2000. 14. Barry Smith, “Über die Grenzen der Übersetzbarkeit”, in Armin Paul Frank, Kurt–Jürgen Maass, Fritz Paul and Horst Turk (Eds.), Übersetzen. Verstehen. Brücken bauen. Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch (Göttinger Beiträge zur Internationalen Übersetzungsforschung, 8/1), Berlin/Bielefeld/Munich: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1994, 295–301. 15. Barry Smith, “Philosophieren und Kommentieren: Überlegungen zu ihrem Verhältnis”, in H. F. Fulda and Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Eds.), Vernunftbegriffe in der Moderne. Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 1993, Stuttgart: Klett Cotta, 1994, 857–868. Shorter version as: “Worin unterscheiden sich deutsche und angelsächsische Philosophie?”, Information Philosophie, 2/1994, 30–38.
17. Barry Smith, “Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science”, in C. Eschenbach, C. Habel and B. Smith (Eds.), Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Hamburg: Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, 1994, 3–22. Polish translation forthcoming. Danish translation as: “Kognitionsforskningens topologiske grundlag”, in Peer F. Bundgaard, Jesper Egholm & Martin Skov (Eds.), Dynamisk semiotik. Kognition, sprog, ontologi, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1999. 18. Barry Smith, “On Drawing Lines on a Map”, in Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. A Theoretical Basis for GIS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 988), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, etc.: Springer, 1995, 475–484. 19. Barry Smith, “Towards an Ontology of Common Sense”, in Jaakko Hintikka and Klaus Puhl (Eds.), The British Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1995, 300–309. 20. Barry Smith, “The Cognitive Geometry of War”, in Peter Koller and Klaus Puhl (Eds.), Current Issues in Political Philosophy: Justice in Society and World Order, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1997, 394–403. French translation as: “La géométrie cognitive de la guerre”, in Bernard Baertschi and Kevin Mulligan (Eds.), Les Nationalismes, Paris, PUF, 2002, 199–226. Romanian translation in Nationalismele, Bucharest: Nemira, 2010 21. Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries: Towards an Ontology of Spatially Extended Objects”, in S. C. Hirtle and A. U. Frank (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. International Conference COSIT ‘97. Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, October 1997 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1329), Berlin/New York: Springer Verlag, 103–119. 22. Barry Smith, “Basic Concepts of Formal Ontology”, in Nicola Guarino (Ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Amsterdam, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, DC: IOS Press (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications), 1998, 19–28. Polish translation as “Podstawowe pojęcia ontologii formalnej”, Lectiones & Acroases Philosophicae, 8, 2 (2015). 23. Roberto Casati, Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation”, in Nicola Guarino (Ed.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems Amsterdam, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, DC: IOS Press (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications), 1998, 77–85. “地理的表象のための存在論的ツール”, Japanese translation by Y. Yamashita, InterCommunication, 45, Summer 2003, 80–91.
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16. Barry Smith, “Fiat Objects”, in N. Guarino, L. Vieu and S. Pribbenow (Eds.), Parts and Wholes: Conceptual Part-Whole Relations and Formal Mereology, 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, 8 August 1994, Amsterdam: European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, 1994, 15–23.
24. Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Ontology and Geographic Kinds”, in T. Poiker and N. Chrisman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH ‘98), Vancouver: International Geographic Union, 1998, 308–320. Reprinted in Yaser Bishr and Werner Kuhn (Eds.), The Role of Ontology in Modelling Geospatial Features, Münster: Formatik, 1999. 25. Barry Smith, “Agglomerations”, in C. Freksa, and David M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661), 1999, 267–282. 26. David Mark, Barry Smith and Barbara Tversky “Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization,” in C. Freksa and David M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661), 1999, 283–298. 27. Barry Smith and Achille C. Varzi, “The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts,” in P. Bouquet, P. Brezillon, L. Serafini, M. Beneceretti, F. Castellani (Eds.), CONTEXT ‘99: Modeling and Using Context. Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1688), Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1999, 339–350. 28. David M. Mark, Barry Smith, Berit Brogaard-Pedersen, “Ontology of Common Sense Geographic Phenomena: Foundations for Interoperable Multilingual Geospatial Databases”, 3rd AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science – Helsinki/Espoo, Finland, May 25–27, 2000, 32-34. 29. Barry Smith, “On Forms of Communication in Philosophy”, in Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Volume X: Philosophy of Science, Editor: Tian Yu Cao, Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001, 73–82. 30. Barry Smith and Achille C. Varzi, “Environmental Metaphysics”, in U. Meixner (Ed.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age. Proceedings of the 22nd International Wittgenstein-Symposium, Vienna: öbv&hpt, 2001, 231–239. Japanese translation by S. Kajitani: “環境の形而上学” (Kankyo no Keijijyogaku), 理想 (The Riso/Risosha (Tokyo), 669, 2002, 170–180.
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31. Barry Smith, “True Grid”, in Daniel Montello (Ed.), Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Proceedings of COSIT 2001, Morro Bay, California, September 2001 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205), Berlin/New York: Springer, 14–27. Revised version as: “Pictures, Maps and Other Cognitive Artifact”, Visio, 6: 2-3, 2001, 163–176. 32. David M. Mark, Andre Skupin and Barry Smith, “Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions in the Geographic Domain”, in Daniel Montello (Ed.), Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Proceedings of COSIT 2001, Morro Bay, California, September 2001 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205), Berlin/New York: Springer, 488–502. 33. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “A Taxonomy of Granular Partitions”, Daniel Montello (Ed.), Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Proceedings of COSIT 2001, Morro Bay, California, September 2001 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205), Berlin/New York: Springer, 28–43. 34. Barry Smith and Christopher Welty, “Ontology: Towards a New Synthesis”, editors’ introduction to: Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, New York: ACM Press, 2001, iii-ix. 35. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “Granular Partitions and Vagueness” in Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, New York: ACM Press, 2001, 309–321. 36. Wolfgang Degen, Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre and Barry Smith, “GOL: A General Ontological Language”, in Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems, New York: ACM Press, 2001, 34–46. 37. Barry Smith and Leo Zaibert, “The Metaphysics of Real Estate”, in Christoph Schlieder, Erik Stubkjaer and Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Eds.), Von der Theorie zur Praxis: Entwicklung und Transfer von Informatik-Technologien. Papers of the Kick-Off Meeting of the COST Action G9 “Modeling Real-Property Transactions’, Bremen, Nov. 1-3, 2001, University of Bremen, Fachbereich Mathematik/ Informatik, 2001, 19–21. 38. Maureen Donnelly and Barry Smith “Layers: A New Approach to Locating Objects in Space”, in W. Kuhn, M. F. Worboys, and S. Timpf (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2825), Berlin: Springer, 2003, 50–65. 39. Daniel Cohnitz and Barry Smith, “Assessing Ontologies: The Question of Human Origins and Its Ethical Significance”, in C. Kanzian and E. Runggaldier (Eds.), Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Vienna: hpt&öbv, 2003, 243–59.
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40. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith “Ontology for Task-Based Clinical Guidelines and the Theory of Granular Partitions”, Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 2780), Berlin: Springer, 2003, 71–75. 41. Barry Smith, Igor Papakin and Katherine Munn, 2003, “Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body”, Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 2780), Berlin: Springer, 2003, 86–90. 42. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith and Jim Flanagan 2003, “Ontology and Medical Terminology: Why Description Logics Are Not Enough”, in Proceedings of the Conference: Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR 2003), San Antonio 10-14 May 2003, Boston, MA: Medical Records Institute (CD-ROM publication). 43. Barry Smith, Jennifer Williams and Steffen Schulze-Kremer, 2003, “The Ontology of the Gene Ontology”, in Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications, Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Washington DC, November 2003, 609–613. PMC1480173 44. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith, 2003, “The Universal Medical Language System and the Gene Ontology: Some Critical Reflections”, in A. Günter, R. Kruse and B. Neumann (Eds.), KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2821), Berlin: Springer, 2003, 135–148. 45. Barry Smith, “Ontology in Biomedicine”, E. Papp, A. G. Beck-Sickinger and S. Eichler (Eds.), 2. Biotechnologie-Tag, Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2003, 294–296. 46. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith, “A Framework for Protein Classification”, Proceedings of the 2003 German Conference on Bioinformatics, Vol. II, 2003, 55–57.
48. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “Granular Spatio-Temporal Ontologies”, AAAI Symposium: Foundations and Applications of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning (FASTR), AAAI Press, 2003, 12–17. 49. David M Mark, Werner Kuhn, Barry Smith, Andrew G. Turk, “Ontology, natural language, and information systems: Implications of cross-linguistic studies of geographic terms”, 6th Annual Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE), 45-50. 50. Istvan-Tibor Nébel, Barry Smith, Ralf Paschke, “A User Profiling Component with the Aid of User Ontologies”, Proceedings of Learning – Teaching – Knowledge – Adaptivity (LLWA), University of Karlsruhe (2003). 51. Barry Smith, Jakob Köhler and Anand Kumar, “On the Application of Formal Principles to Life Science Data: A Case Study in the Gene Ontology”, in Proceedings of DILS 2004 (Data Integration in the Life Sciences), (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 2994), Berlin: Springer, 2004, 79–94. 52. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith and James Matthew Fielding, “LinkSuite™: Software Tools for Formally Robust Ontology-Based Data and Information Integration”, in Proceedings of DILS 2004 (Data Integration in the Life Sciences), (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 2994), Berlin: Springer, 2004, 124–139. 53. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith and Martin Van Mol, “Using Ontology in Query Answering Systems: Scenarios, Requirements and Challenges,” in R. Bernardi and M. Moortgat (Eds.) Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Proceedings of the 2nd CoLogNET-Elsnet Symposium, December 2003, Amsterdam, 5–15 (CD-ROM publication), (revised version to appear in Journal of Applied Logic). 54. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar and Christoffel Dhaen, “Mistakes in Medical Ontologies: Where Do They Come From and How Can They Be Detected?”, in D. M. Pisanelli (Ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies, Rome October 2003 (Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 102 (2004)), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 145–164. 55. Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith and Louis Goldberg, “Biodynamic Ontology: Applying BFO in the Biomedical Domain”, in D. M. Pisanelli (Ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies, Rome October 2003 (Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 102), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 20–38. 56. Barry Smith, Igor Papakin and Katherine Munn, “Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body”, in D. M. Pisanelli (Ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies, Rome October 2003 (Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 102 (2004)), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 39–63. Appendix: Publications by Barry Smith
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47. Anand Kumar, Barry Smith, Mario Stefanelli, Silvana Quaglinia and Matteo Piazza, “Implementing Clinical Guidelines in an Organizational Setup”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Model-Based and Qualitiative Reasoning in Biomedicine, AIME 2003, 39–44. See also supplementary paper here.
57. Anand Kumar, Paolo Ciccarese, Barry Smith and Matteo Piazza, “Context-Based Task Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines”, in D. M. Pisanelli (Ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies, Rome October 2003 (Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 102 (2004)), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 81–94. 58. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “Directly Depicting Granular Ontologies”, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (Hamburg: Gesellschaft für Künstliche Intelligenz, 2003), 24–35. 59. Anand Kumar, Barry Smith, Domenico M. Pisanelli, Aldo Gangemi and Mario Stefanelli, “An Ontological Framework for the Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Health Care Organizations,” in D. M. Pisanelli (Ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies (Rome October 2003), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 95–107. 60. Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar and Christoffel Dhaen, “Ontology-Based Error Detection in SNOMED-CT”, in M. Fieschi, et al. (Eds.), Medinfo 2004, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 482–486. 61. Barry Smith and Cornelius Rosse, “The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies”, in M. Fieschi, et al. (Eds.), Medinfo 2004, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 444–448. 62. Jonathan Simon, James Matthew Fielding and Barry Smith, “Using Philosophy to Improve the Coherence and Interoperability of Applications Ontologies: A Field Report on the Collaboration of IFOMIS and L&C”, in Gregor Büchel, Bertin Klein and Thomas Roth-Berghofer (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Cologne: 2004 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings 112), 65–72. 63. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith, “Towards a Proteomics Meta-Classification”, IEEE Fourth Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Taichung, Taiwan. IEEE Press, 2004, 419–427.
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65. Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar and Anita Burgun, “Investigating Subsumption in DL-Based Terminologies: A Case Study in Snomed-CT”, in U. Hahn, S. Schulz and R. Cornet (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation (KR-MED 2004), 12–20. 66. Anand Kumar, Barry Smith and Christian Borgelt, “Dependence Relationships between Gene Ontology Terms based on TIGR Gene Product Annotations”, Proceedings of CompuTerm 2004: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology, Sophia Ananadiou and Pierre Zweigenbaum (Eds.), Geneva: Coling, 31–38. 67. Barry Smith and Christiane Fellbaum, “Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health”, Proceedings of Coling: The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva 23-27 August 2004, 371–382. 68. Olivier Bodenreider Barry Smith and Anita Burgun, “The Ontology-Epistemology Divide: A Case Study in Medical Terminology”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 185–195. 69. Barry Smith, “Beyond Concepts, or: Ontology as Reality Representation”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 73–84. 70. Fabian Neuhaus, Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 49–58. 71. Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly and Barry Smith, “Individuals, Universals, Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology”, in Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 37–48. 72. Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, “Normalizing Medical Ontologies Using Basic Formal Ontology”, Kooperative Versorgung, Vernetzte Forschung, Ubiquitäre Information, Proceedings of GMDS 2004, Niebüll: Videel OHG, 199–201. 73. Barry Smith, “Ontologie-basierte Qualitätssicherung medizinischer Terminologien”, Kooperative Versorgung, Vernetzte Forschung, Ubiquitäre Information, Proceedings of GMDS 2004, Niebüll: Videel OHG, 193–195. 74. Lowell Vizenor and Barry Smith, “The Ontological Nexus between Speech Acts and Medical Records”, Proceedings of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004, Jana Zvarova, et al. (Eds.), Prague, EuroMISE 2004, p.61. Expanded version.
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75. James Mathew Fielding, Jonathan Simon and Barry Smith, “Reference Ontologies for Biomedical Ontology Integration and Natural Language Processing”, Proceedings of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004, Jana Zvarova, et al. (Eds.), Prague, EuroMISE 2004, 62. 76. Barry Smith, “The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology”, in Petr Hájek, Luis ValdésVillanueva and Dag Westerståhl (Ed.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, London: King’s College Publications, 2005, 505–520. 77. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith, “Enhancing GO for the Sake of Clinical Bioinformatics”, Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2004), Glasgow, July 30. 78. Barry Smith and Anand Kumar, “On the Proper Treatment of Pathologies in Biomedical Ontologies”, Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005), Detroit, 22–23. 79. Barry Smith, “Against Fantology”, in Johann C. Marek and Maria E. Reicher (Eds.), Experience and Analysis, Vienna: HPT&ÖBV, 2005, 153–170. 80. Anand Kumar and Barry Smith, “Oncology Ontology in the NCI Thesaurus”, AIME 2005 (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe), (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3581), 213–220. 81. Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters and Rita Temmerman, “Wüsteria”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2005), Geneva, Studies in Health Technology and Informatic, 116 (2005), 647–652. 82. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Tracking Referents in Electronic Health Records”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2005), Geneva, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 116 (2005), 71–76.
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Louis J. Goldberg, Werner Ceusters, John Eisner and Barry Smith, “The Significance of SNODENT”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2005), Geneva, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 116, 2005, 737–742.
85. Barry Smith, Jose L.V. Mejino Jr., Stefan Schulz, Anand Kumar and Cornelius Rosse, “Anatomical Information Science”, in A. G. Cohn and D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Proceedings of COSIT 2005 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3693), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 149–164. 86. Stephan Schulz, Philipp Daumke, Barry Smith and Udo Hahn, “How to Distinguish Parthood from Location in Bioontologies”, Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium 2005, Washington DC, 669–673. PMC1560856 87. Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “An Ontology-Based Methodology for the Migration of Medical Terminologies to Electronic Health Records”, Proceedings of AMIA Symposium 2005, Washington DC, 704–708. PMC1560617 88. Cornelius Rosse, Anand Kumar, Jose Leonardo V. Mejino, Daniel L. Cook, Landon T. Detwiler and Barry Smith, “A Strategy for Improving and Integrating Biomedical Ontologies”, Proceedings of AMIA Symposium 2005, Washington DC, 639–643. PMC1560467 89. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Requirements for natural language understanding in referent-tracking based electronic health records”, Computer Science and IT with/for Biology, C. Maria Keet and Enrico Franconi (Eds.), Free University of Bolzano, 2005, 43-46. 90. Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “HL7 RIM: An Incoherent Standard” (MIE 2006), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 124, 133–138. (This issue also published as Ubiquity: Technologies for Better Health in Aging Societies. Proceedings of MIE2006, edited by Arie Hasman, Reinhold Haux, Johan van der Lei, Etienne De Clercq, Francis Roger-France, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006.) 91. Werner Ceusters, Peter Elkin and Barry Smith “Referent Tracking: The Problem of Negative Findings” (MIE 2006), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 124, 741–6. (This issue also published as Ubiquity: Technologies for Better Health in Aging Societies. Proceedings of MIE2006, edited by Arie Hasman, Reinhold Haux, Johan van der Lei, Etienne De Clercq, Francis RogerFrance, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006.) 92. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “A Realism-Based Approach to the Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies”, Proceedings of the Annual AMIA Symposium, Washington DC, 2006, 121-125. PMC1839444
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83. Anand Kumar, Y. Lina Yip, Barry Smith, Dirk Marwede and Daniel Novotny, “An Ontology for Carcinoma Classification for Clinical Bioinformatics”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2005), Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005;116:635-40.
93. Barry Smith, “Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development”, in B. Bennett and C. Fellbaum (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006, 15-26. Russian translation 94. Barry Smith, Waclaw Kusnierczyk, Daniel Schober, Werner Ceusters, “Towards a Reference Terminology for Ontology Research and Development in the Biomedical Domain”, O. Bodenreider, Ed., Proceedings of KR-MED (CEUR, 222), 2006, 57-66. 95. Darren A. Natale, Cecilia N. Arighi, Winona Barker, Judith Blake, Ti-Cheng Chang, Zhangzhi Hu, Hongfang Liu, Barry Smith, and Cathy H. Wu, “Framework for a Protein Ontology”, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics, 2006, 29-36. Journal version. 96. Barry Smith, “On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv”, in C. Kanzian (Ed.), Cultures: Conflict – Analysis – Dialogue, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, 403-416. 97. Ceusters W, Smith B. “Referent Tracking and its Applications”, Proceedings of the Workshop WWW2007 Workshop i3: Identity, Identifiers, Identification (Workshop on Entity-Centric Approaches to Information and Knowledge Management on the Web), Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-249/. 98. Blake J, Hill DP, Smith B. “Gene Ontology annotations: What they mean and where they come from”, Proceedings of the BioOntologies Workshop, ISMB/ECCB, Vienna, July 20, 2007, 79-82. Journal version.
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100. Werner Ceusters, Kent Spackman and Barry Smith, “Would SNOMED-CT Benefit from Realism-Based Ontology Evolution?”, Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Chicago, IL, 2007, 105-109. PMC2655780 101. Ron Rudnicki, Werner Ceusters, Shahid Manzoor and Barry Smith, “What Particulars are Referred to in EHR Data? A Case Study in Integrating Referent Tracking into an Electronic Health Record Application”, Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Chicago, IL, 2007, 630-634. PMC2655819. 102. Terry Janssen, Herbert Basik, Mike Dean, Barry Smith, “A Multi-INT Semantic Reasoning Framework for Intelligence Analysis Support”, Proceedings of Ontology for the Intelligence Community, Columbia MD, November 2007, 27-32. Repr. as “A Multi-INT Semantic Reasoning Framework for Intelligence Analysis Support”, in: L. Obrst, T. Janssen, W. Ceusters (Eds.) Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for the Intelligence Community (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2010, 57-69. 103. Stefan Schulz, Holger Stenzhorn, Martin Boeker, Rudiger Klar, Barry Smith, “Clinical Ontologies Interfacing the Real World”, Third International Conference on Semantic Technologies (i-semantics 2007), Graz, Österreich, September 2007, 356-363. 104. Mitsuhiro Okada, Barry Smith, and Yutaro Sugimoto, “Remarks on Logic for Process Descriptions in Ontological Reasoning: A Drug Interaction Ontology (DIO) Case Study”, InterOntology. Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 February 2008, 127-138. 105. Barry Smith, “The Evaluation of Ontologies: Editorial Review vs. Democratic Ranking”, Proceedings of InterOntology 2008 (Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 February 2008), 127-138. 106. Cecilia Arighi, Hongfang Liu, Darren Natale, Winona Barker, Harold Drabkin, Zhangzhi Hu, Judith Blake, Barry Smith and Cathy Wu, “TGF-beta Signaling Proteins and the Protein Ontology”, Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008), Toronto, 25-28. Journal version. 107. Robert Arp and Barry Smith, “Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology”, Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008), Toronto, 45-48. Revised version. 108. Barry Smith, “Ontology (Science)”, in C. Eschenbach and M. Grüninger (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 21-35. 109. Richard H. Scheuermann, Werner Ceusters, and Barry Smith, “Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis”, Proceedings of the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, 2009, 116-120.
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110. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “What do Identifiers in HL7 Identify? An Essay in the Ontology of Identity”, Proceedings of InterOntology 2009 (Tokyo, Japan, February 27-March 1, 2009), 77-86. 111. Werner Ceusters, Maria Capolupo, Barry Smith, Georges De Moor, “An Evolutionary Approach to the Representation of Adverse Events”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2009), Sarajevo, Stud Health Technol Inform, 150, 537-541. PMC2829617 112. Bernd Blobel, Dipak Kalra, Marc Koehn, Ken Lunn, Peter Pharow, Pekka Ruotsalainen, Stefan Schulz, Barry Smith, “The Role of Ontologies for Sustainable, Semantically Interoperable and Trustworthy EHR Solutions”, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2009), Sarajevo, Stud Health Technol Inform, 150, 953-957. 113. Barry Smith, Kristo Mietinnin and William Mandrick, The Ontology of Command and Control, Proceedings of the 14th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), Washington DC, Jun 15-17, Arlington, VA: The Command and Control Research Program, 2009. 114. Albert Goldfain, Lindsay G. Cowell, Barry Smith, “Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSA”, ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, 61-64. 115. Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor and James Schoening, “Universal Core Semantic Layer”, Ontology for the Intelligence Community, Proceedings of the Third OIC Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 555. 116. Shahid Manzoor, Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Referent Tracking for Command and Control Messaging Systems”, Proceedings of Ontology for the Intelligence Community, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 555.
118. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “A Unified Framework for Biomedical Terminologies and Ontologies”, Proceedings of Medinfo 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 12-15 September 2010 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2010, 160) 1050-1054. PMC3104298 119. Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Dispositions and the Infectious Disease Ontology”, in Antony Galton and Riichiro Mizoguchi (Eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2010, 400-413. 120. Kerry Trentelman, Barry Smith, “An Axiomatisation of Basic Formal Ontology with Projection Functions”, Advances in Ontologies, Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010), Adelaide, 7 December 2010, Kerry Taylor, Thomas Meyer and Mehmet Orgun (Eds.), 2010, Sydney: ACS, 71-80. 121. Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Louis J. Goldberg, Richard Ohrbach, “Towards an Ontology of Pain”, in Mitsu Okada (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Ontology and Analytical Metaphysics, February 24-25, 2011, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2011, 23-36. Japanese translation: “痛みと痛み関連の現象のオントロジー (分類体系) に向けて (特集 痛むカラダ–当事者研究最前線)”, 現代思想 (Contemporary Thought), 39 (11), 2011, 172-180. Russian translation 122. Barry Smith, “The Ontology of Documents”, in Mitsu Okada (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Ontology and Analytical Metaphysics, February 24-25, 2011, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2011, 1-6. Russian translation 123. Janna Hastings, Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, Kevin Mulligan, “Dispositions and Processes in the Emotion Ontology”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, July 28-30, 2011 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 833), 71-78. 124. Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, “The HL7 Approach to Semantic Interoperability”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, July 28-30, 2011 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 833), 139-146. 125. Jiye Ai, Mauricio Almeida, Andre Andrade, Alan Ruttenberg, David T.W. Wong, Barry Smith, “Towards a Body Fluids Ontology: A Unified Application Ontology for Basic and Translational Science”, Proceedings of the ICBO Workshop on Working with Multiple Biomedical Ontologies, Buffalo, NY, July 26, 2011 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 833), 381-386.
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117. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Malaria Diagnosis and the Plasmodium Life Cycle: The BFO Perspective”, in Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 27-28, 2010), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2010, 25-34.
126. Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith, Sivaram Arabandi, Mathias Brochhausen, William R. Hogan, “Vital Sign Ontology”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Bio-Ontologies, ISMB, Vienna, June 2011, 71-74. 127. David Salmen, Tatiana Malyuta, Alan Hansen, Shaun Cronen, Barry Smith, “Integration of Intelligence Data through Semantic Enhancement”, Proceedings of the Conference on Semantic Technology in Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, November 16-17, 2011, CEUR, Vol. 808, 6-13. 128. Janna Hastings, Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, Kevin Mulligan, “The Emotion Ontology: Enabling Interdisciplinary Research in the Affective Sciences”, in CONTEXT ‘11, The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 119-123. 129. Cecilia N. Arighi, Darren A. Natale, Judith A. Blake, Carol J. Bult, Michael Caudy, Alexander D. Diehl, Harold J. Drabkin, Peter D’Eustachio, Alexei Evsikov, Hongzhan Huang, Natalia V. Roberts, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, Jian Zhang, Cathy H. Wu, “Protein-Centric Connection of Biomedical Knowledge: Protein Ontology (PRO) Research and Annotation Tools”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, July 28-30, 2011, 285-287. 130. Patricia L. Whetzel, Natasha Noy, Nigam Shah, Paul Alexander, Michael Dorf, Ray Fergerson, Margaret-Anne Storey, Barry Smith, Chris Chute, Mark Musen, “Bioportal: Ontologies and Integrated Data Resources at the Click of a Mouse”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, July 28-30, 2011, 292-293. 131. Barry Smith, “On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology”, in Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2012, 1-13. 132. Janna Hastings, Nicolas Le Novère, Werner Ceusters, Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Wanting What We Don’t Want to Want: Representing Addiction in Interoperable Bio-Ontologies”, Proceeedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (CEUR 897), Graz, July 23-25, 2012, 56-60.
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133. Ramona Walls, Barry Smith, Justin Elser, Albert Goldfain, Dennis W. Stevenson and Pankaj Jaiswal, “A Plant Disease Extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology”, Proceeedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (CEUR 897), Graz, July 23-25, 2012, 1-5. 134. Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay Cowell, “Constructing a Lattice of Infectious Disease Ontologies from a Staphylococcus aureus Isolate Repository”, Proceeedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (CEUR 897), Graz, July 2325, 2012. 135. Janna Hastings, Werner Ceusters, Mark Jensen, Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Representing Mental Functioning: Ontologies for Mental Health and Disease”, Towards an Ontology of Mental Functioning (ICBO Workshop), Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, July 22, 2012. 136. Alexander P. Cox, Mark Jensen, William Duncan, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Kinga Szigeti, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith and Alexander D. Diehl, “Ontologies for the Study of Neurological Disease”, Towards an Ontology of Mental Functioning (ICBO Workshop), Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, July 22, 2012. 137. Janna Hastings, Werner Ceusters, Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Annotating affective neuroscience data with the Emotion Ontology”, Towards an Ontology of Mental Functioning (ICBO Workshop), Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, July 22, 2012. 138. Barry Smith, Tatiana Malyuta, William S. Mandrick, Chia Fu, Kesny Parent, Milan Patel, “Horizontal Integration of Warfighter Intelligence Data. A Shared Semantic Resource for the Intelligence Community”, Proceedings of the Conference on Semantic Technology in Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 23-25, 2012, CEUR 996, 112-119. 139. Barry Smith, “Diagrams, Documents, and the Meshing of Plans”, in: András Benedek and Kristóf Nyíri (Eds.), How To Do Things With Pictures: Skill, Practice, Performance, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang Edition, 2013, 165-179. Italian translation as “Diagrammi, documenti e l’intrecciarsi dei piani d’azione” in Tiziana Andina and Carola Barbero (Eds.), Ermeneutica, estetica, ontologia, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016, 249-266. 140. William R. Hogan, Mathias Brochhausen, Barry Smith, “A call to urgent action on standard ontologies for translational science”, Presented at Translational Science 2013, Washington DC, April 18, 2013, Clinical and Translational Science, 6:2, 2013, 57 141. Albert Goldfain, Min Xu, Jonathan Bona and Barry Smith, “Ontology based annotation of contextualized vital signs”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Montreal, July 8-9, 2013, CEUR, vol. 1060, 28-33.
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142. Barry Smith, “Introduction to the Logic of Definitions”, International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies, organized in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Montreal, July 7, 2013, CEUR, vol. 1061, 1-2. 143. Barry Smith, Tatiana Malyuta, Ron Rudnicki, William Mandrick, David Salmen, Peter Morosoff, Danielle K. Duff, James Schoening, Kesny Parent, “IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence Domain”, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, Fairfax, VA (STIDS 2013), CEUR, vol. 1097, 33-40. 144. Werner Ceusters, Chiun Yu Hsu and Barry Smith, “Clinical Data Wrangling Using Ontology and Referent Tracking”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Houston, 2014, (CEUR, 1327), 27-32. 145. Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith, Lindsay Cowell, “Ontological Representation of CDC Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Case Reports”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Houston, 2014, (CEUR, 1327), 74-77. 146. Selja Seppälä, Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Applying the Realism-Based Ontology-Versioning Method for Tracking Changes in the Basic Formal Ontology”, Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2014), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 227-240. 147. Neil Otte, Brian Donohue and Barry Smith. “An Ontological Approach to Territorial Disputes”, Proceedings of the Conference on Semantic Technology in Intelligence, Defense and Security George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, (STIDS 2014), CEUR, vol. 1304, 2-9. 148. Erik Thomsen, Fred Read, William Duncan, Tatiana Malyuta and Barry Smith, “Ontological Support for Living Plan Specification, Execution and Evaluation”, Proceedings of the Conference on Semantic Technology in Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, (STIDS 2014), CEUR, vol. 1304, 10-17.
150. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Aboutness: Towards Foundations for the Information Artifact Ontology”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Lisbon, Portugal (CEUR 1515), 2015, 1-5. 151. Jingshan Huang, Karen Eilbeck, Judith Blake, Dejing Dou, Darren Natale, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, Michael Zimmermann, Guoqian Jiang, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Yongqun He, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, He Zhang, David Schmitt, and Ming Tan, “A domain ontology for the non-coding RNA field”, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2015), 621-624. 152. Jingshan Huang, Fernando Gutierrez, Dejing Dou, Judith Blake, Karen Eilbeck, Darren Natale, Barry Smith, Yu Lin, Xiaowei Wang, Zixing Liu, Bin Wu, Ming Tan and Alan Ruttenberg, “A semantic approach for knowledge capture of microRNA-target gene interactions,” IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2015), 975-982. 153. Peter Morosoff, Ron Rudnicki, Jason Bryant, Robert Farrell, Barry Smith, “Joint Doctrine Ontology: A Benchmark for Military Information Systems Interoperability”, Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS), 2015, CEUR vol. 1523, 2-9. 154. Brian Donohue, Douglas Kutach, Amardeep Bhattal, Dave Braines, Geeth de Mel, Robert Ganger, Tien Pham, Ron Rudnicki and Barry Smith, “Controlled and Uncontrolled English for Ontology Editing”, Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS), 2015, CEUR vol. 1523, 74-81 155. Francesco Furini, Rahul Rai, Giorgio Colombo, Barry Smith, Venkat Krovi, “Development of a Manufacturing Ontology for Functionally Graded Materials”, Proceedings of International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016), August 21-24, 2016, Charlotte, NC 156. Selja Seppälä, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, “The Functions of Definitions in Ontologies”, Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference (FOIS 2016), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2016, 37-50. 157. Niels Grewe, Ludger Jansen and Barry Smith, “Permanent Generic Relatedness and Silent Change”, Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference (FOIS 2016) Ontology Competition, (CEUR 1660), 1-5. 157. Alexander P. Cox, Christopher K. Nebelecky, Ronald Rudnicki, William A. Tagliaferri, John L. Crassidis, Barry Smith, “The Space Object Ontology”, 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2016), Heidelberg, Germany, July 5-8, 2016. 158. Fernanda Farinelli, Mauricio B. Almeida, Peter Elkin and Barry Smith, “OntONeo: The Obstetric and Neonatal Ontology”, Fernanda Farinelli, Mauricio Almeida, Peter Elkin, Barry Smith”, International Conference on Biological Ontology(ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016.
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149. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Biomarkers in the Ontology for General Medical Science”, Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans, R. Cornet et al. (Eds.), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2015, 155-159.
159. Fernanda Farinelli, Mauricio B. Almeida, Peter Elkin and Barry Smith, “Dealing with elements of medical encounters: an approach based on ontological realism”, International Conference on Biological Ontology(ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016. 160. Laurel Cooper, Austin Meier, Justin Elser, Justin Preece, Xu Xu, Ryan Kitchen, Botong Qu, Eugene Zhang, Sinisa Todorovic, Pankaj Jaiswal, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Elizabeth Arnaud, Seth Carbon, Chris Mungall, Barry Smith, Georgios Gkoutos and John Doonan, “The Planteome Project”, International Conference on Biological Ontology(ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016. 161. William Duncan, Travis Allen, Jonathan Bona, Olivia Helfer, Barry Smith, Alan Ruttenberg and Alexander D. Diehl, “The ImmPort Antibody Ontology”, International Conference on Biological Ontology(ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016. 162. Barry Smith, Mark Jensen, “The UNEP Ontologies and the OBO Foundry”, International Conference on Biological Ontology (ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016.
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Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel and Barry Smith (Eds.), Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Hamburg: Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft 1994, 194pp.
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Barry Smith, Foundations of Formal Geography, Department of Geoinformation, Technical University of Vienna, 1995, 143pp.
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Thomas Carroll and Barry Smith, SUNY’s Core Curricula: The Failure to Set Consistent and High Academic Standards, New York: Empire Foundation for Policy Research, 1996, xiv + 34pp.
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Donna Peuquet, Barry Smith and Berit O. Brogaard, The Ontology of Fields: Report of the Specialist Meeting held under the auspices of the Varenius Project, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 1998, Santa Barbara: NCGIA, vi + 42pp.
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David Mark, Max Egenhofer, Stephen Hirtle and Barry Smith, UCGIS Emerging Research Theme: Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science White Paper), 2000.
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Wolfgang Degen, Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre, Barry Smith, GOL: Towards an Axiomatized Upper-Level Ontology, IMISE, University of Leipzig, 2001.
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Barbara Haller, Heinrich Herre, Barry Smith, “A Unified Framework for Building Ontological Theories with Application and Testing in the Field of Clinical Trials”, Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Report No. 2, University of Leizpig, 2001.
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Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, Formal Ontologies for Space and Time, IFOMIS Reports, 2003.
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Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith, George De Moor, Ontology-Based Integration of Medical Coding Systems and Electronic Patient Records, IFOMIS Reports, 2004.
10. Barry Smith, Anand Kumar, Thomas Bittner, Basic Formal Ontology for bioinformatics, IFOMIS Reports, 2005. 11. Nicola Guarino and Barry Smith, Engineering Ontologies: Foundations and Theories from Philosophy and Logical Theory, Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine (SemanticMining, European Union Network of Excellence 507505, Deliverable D.21.2), 2006. 12. L. Obrst, M. Musen, B. Smith, F. Neuhaus, F. Olken, M. Gruninger, M. Raymond, P. Hayes, R. Sharma (Eds.), Towards an Open Ontology Repository. Communiqué. Ontology Summit 2008. 13. William Mandrick, James Schoening and Barry Smith, Command and Control (C2) Core Extended to Net-Enabled Command Capability, Briefing to Department of Defense (DoD) Net-Enabled Command Capability, September 14, 2009. 14. Bernard de Bono, Mathias Brochhausen, Sybo Dijkstra, Dipak Kalra, Stephan Keifer, Barry Smith, Biomedical Terminologies and Ontologies: Enabling Biomedical Semantic Interoperability and Standards in Europe, White Paper, ELSA (European Large Scale Action on Electronic Health) Consultation Meeting, September 29, 2009. 15. William Mandrick, James Schoening and Barry Smith, NATO Briefing on Command and Control (C2) Core Ontology, October 11, 2009. 16. Ron Rudnicki, James Schoening and Barry Smith, Aligning Legacy Data Models using UCore-SL, Department of Defense Briefing, November 2009. 17. James Schoening, William Mandrick and Barry Smith, UCore and UCore Semantic Layer. Briefing to US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) HQ, November 9, 2009. 18. Barry Smith, James Schoening and Dan Brennan, UCore 2.0 Change Request, US Department of the Army, November 2009.
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19. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, Semantic Interoperability in Healthcare: State of the Art in the US. A Position Paper with Background Materials, prepared for the European Union ARGOS Project: Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions, March 3, 2010. 20. Fabian Neuhaus and Barry Smith, Ontology Summit 2010 Communiqué: Creating the Ontologists of the Future, Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute for Standards and Technology, March 2010. 21. Mark Phillips, Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor, Scott Streit, Independent Review of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies Supporting the Defense Training Environment, United States Joint Forces Command, Joint Warfighting Center, September 2010, 27 pp. 22. Mark Phillips, Barry Smith, Lowell Vizenor, Scott Streit, White Paper: Realizing the Next Generation Defense Training Environment (DTE) through Semantic Web Technologies and Best Practices, United States Joint Forces Command, Joint Warfighting Center, November 2010, 60pp. 23. Barry Smith, Suzanne Lewis, Judith Blake, Chris Mungall, Disease Ontology: Report of the Scientific Advisory Board, February 2011.
POSTERS AND ABSTRACTS Barry Smith, Anand Kumar and Steffen Schulze-Kremer, “Revising the UMLS Semantic Network,” in M. Fieschi, et al. (Eds.), Medinfo 2004, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1700. Expanded version.
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Lee Sam, Tara Borlawsky, Ying Tao, Jianrong Li, Barry Smith and Yves Lussier, “Information-Theoretic Classification of SNOMED Improves the Organization of Context-Sensitive Excerpts from Cochrane Reviews” (Poster), Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Chicago, 2007, 645. PMC2655812
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Yongqun He, Zuoshuang Xiang, Boyang Zhao, David States, Brian Athey, Gil Omenn, Steve Qin, Harry Mobley, Howard Rush, Lindsay Cowell, Barry Smith, “Vaccine Ontology Development and its Application on Vaccine Data Standardization and Exchange”, ISMB, Toronto, July 19-23, 2008.
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Yongqun He, Lindsay Cowell, Alexander D. Diehl, Harry Mobley, Bjoern Peters, Alan Ruttenberg, Richard H. Scheuermann, Ryan R. Brinkman, Melanie Courtot, Chris Mungall, Zuoshuang Xiang, Fang Chen, Thomas Todd, Lesley Colby, Howard Rush, Trish Whetzel, Mark A. Musen, Brian D. Athey, Gilbert S. Omenn and Barry Smith. “VO: Vaccine Ontology”, ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, 2009, 164.
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Patricia L. Whetzel, Nigam H. Shah, Natalya F. Noy, Benjamin Dai, Michael Dorf, Nicholas B. Griffith, Clement Jonquet, Cherie H. Youn, Adrien Coulet, Chris Callendar, Daniel L. Rubin, Barry Smith, Margaret-Anne Storey, Christopher G. Chute, and Mark A. Musen. BioPortal: Ontologies and Integrated Data Resources at the Click of a Mouse”, in Bio-Ontologies: Knowledge in Biology, SIG, Poster session, ISMB/ECCB, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2009.
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Albert Goldfain, Lindsay Cowell and Barry Smith. “Clonal Complexes in Biomedical Ontologies”, ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, 2009, 168.
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Patricia L Whetzel, Nigam H. Shah, Natalya F. Noy, Benjamin Dai, Michael Dorf, Nicholas Griffith, Clement Jonquet, Cherie Youn, Adrien Coulet, Chris Callendar, Barry Smith, Margaret-Anne Storey, Christopher G. Chute, Daniel L. Rubin and Mark A. Musen. “BioPortal: Ontologies and Integrated Data Resources at the Click of the Mouse”, ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, 2009, 197.
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He Y, Cowell L, Diehl AD, Mobley H, Peters B, Ruttenberg A, Scheuermann RH, Xiang Z, Athey BD, Omenn GS, Smith B. “Development of the Community-based Vaccine Ontology (VO)”, 109th American Society of Microbiologists (ASM) General Meeting. May 17-21, 2009, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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A. Patrice Seyed, Stuart C. Shapiro, and Barry Smith, “Integrating BFO with OntoClean: Towards a Method for Evaluating and Correcting Ontologies”, Presented at Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Toronto, May 11-14, 2010.
10. Ramona L. Walls, Laurel D. Cooper, Justin Elser, Dennis W. Stevenson, Barry Smith, Chris Mungall, Maria A. Gandolfo, Pankaj Jaiswal, “The Plant Ontology: A Common Reference Ontology for Plants”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Bio-Ontologies, ISMB, Boston, July, 2010. 11. Laurel D. Cooper, Justin Elser, Ramona Walls, Dennis W. Stevenson, Barry Smith, Chris Mungall, Maria A. Gandolfo, Pankaj Jaiswal, “The Plant Ontology: A Database for Plant Genomics”, Plant Biology 2010, Montreal, July 30-August 4, 2010, P14010.
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12. Robert Williams, A. Keith Dunker, Barry Smith, Darren Natale, An OBO Foundry ontology for intrinsically disordered proteins, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2011, P835. 13. Mauricio Almeida, Anna Barbara Proietti, Jiye Ai, Barry Smith, “The Blood Ontology: An Ontology in the Domain of Hematology”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, July 28-30, 2011, (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 833), 227-229. 14. Laurel Cooper, Ramona Walls, Justin Elser, Justin Preece, Barry Smith, Chris Mungall, Stefan A. Rensing, Manuel Hiss, Péter Szöevényi, Daniel Lang, Maria A. Gandolfo, Dennis W. Stevenson, Pankaj Jaiswal, “Expanding the Plant Ontology: Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa” (Abstract), Plant Biology 2011, Minneapolis, MI. 15. Ramona L. Walls, Laurel D. Cooper, Justin Elser, Chris Mungall, Neeral Beladia, Justin Preece, Maria A. Gandolfo, Dennis W. Stevenson, Barry Smith, Pankaj Jaiswal, “Using the Plant Ontology to improve the interoperability of genomic and phenomic data sets”, Plant Genomes and Biotechnology: From Genes to Networks, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, November 30-December 3, 2011. 15. Laurel Cooper, Ramona Walls, Justin L. Elser, Justin Preece, Barry Smith, Chris Mungall Marie A. Gandolfo, Dennis W. Stevenson, Pankaj Jaiswal, The Plant Ontology: Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa, Proceedings of Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, California, 2012. 16. Walls RL, Elser JL, Preece J, Smith B, Mungall CJ, Rensing S, Hiss M, Szövényi P, Lang D, Gandolfo MA, Stevenson DW, Jaiswal P, “Annotating Gene Expression in Physcomitrella patens using the Plant Ontology: Facilitating Cross-Taxa Comparisons”, Proceedings of Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, California, 2012.
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17. Alexander C. Yu, Barry Smith, Stanley Schwartz, “Formal and Computable Representations of Allergic Diseases in the Electronic Health Record: An Approach Based on the Ontology of General Medical Science”, 2012 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), November 8-13, 2012, Anaheim, California (Poster).
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18. Pankaj Jaiswal, Barry Smith, Ruth Bastow, Paul J. Kersey, Elizabeth Arnaud, Laurel Cooper, Christopher Rawlings, “A Resource for a Common Reference Ontology for Plants”, Proceedings of Plant and Animal Genome XXI, San Diego, CA, January 12, 2013 (Poster). 19. Brian Atkinson, Laurel Cooper, Laura Moore, Justin Preece, Justin Elser, Nikhil Lingutla, Sinisa Todorovic, Ramona Walls, Ruth Stockey, Gar Rothwell, Barry Smith, Maria A, Gandolfo, Dennis Stevenson, Pankaj Jaiswal, “Plant Ontology, A Controlled and Structured Plant Vocabulary for All Botanical Disciplines”, Botany 2013, New Orleans, July 17-21, 2013. 20. Mark Jensen, Alexander P. Cox, Barry Smith, Alexander D. Diehl, “Representing Disease Courses: An Application of the Neurological Disease Ontology to Multiple Sclerosis Typology”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Montreal, July 8-9, 2013, (CEUR, 1060), 121. 21. Jie Zheng, Marcelline R. Harris, Anna Maria Masci, Yu Lin, Alfred Hero, Barry Smith and Yongqun He, “OBCS: The Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Houston, 2014, (CEUR, 1327), 65. 22. Laurel D. Cooper, Justin Elser, Justin Preece, Elizabeth Arnaud, Dennis W Stevenson, Sinisa Todorovic, Eugene Zhang, Christopher J. Mungall, Barry Smith, Pankaj Jaiswal, “Common Reference Ontologies for Plant Biology: A Platform for Integrative Plant Genomics”, Proceedings of Plant and Animal Genome XXII, San Diego, CA, 2014 (Poster). 23. Pankaj Jaiswal, Laurel Cooper, Justin L. Elser, Austin Meier, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Christopher Mungall, Barry Smith, Ethan K. S. Johnson, Megan Seymour, Justin Preece, Xu Xu, Ryan S. Kitchen, Botong Qu, Eugene Zhang, Elizabeth Arnaud, Seth Carbon, Sinisa Todorovic and Dennis Wm. Stevenson, “Planteome: A resource for Common Reference Ontologies and Applications for Plant Biology”, Proceedings of Plant and Animal Genome XXIV, 2016. 25. Edison Ong, Zuoshuang Xiang, Jie Zheng, Barry Smith and Yongqun He, “Ontobull and BFOConvert: Web-based programs to support automatic ontology conversion”, International Conference on Biological Ontology(ICBO), CEUR 1747, 2016.
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DATABASES AND ONTOLOGIES 1. Buffalo Norms for Geographic Categories, November 1999. 2. Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), May 2004. 3. Relation Ontology (RO), April 2006. 4. Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO), September 2008. 5. Protein Ontology (PRO), with the University of Delaware, October 2009. 6. Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO), with Duke University, October 2009. 7. Information Artifact Ontology (IAO), November 2009 8. Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS), November 2009. 9. Universal Core Semantic Layer (UCore SL), March 2010. Files: http://ncor.buffalo.edu/ucore-sl/ 10. Biometrics Upper Ontology (US Army), March 2010.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “Derrida Degree: A Question of Honour”, Letter to The Times (London) of 9 May 1992 on the award by Cambridge University of an honorary degree to Jacques Derrida. Co-signatories: Hans Albert (University of Mannheim), David Armstrong (Sydney), Ruth Barcan Marcus (Yale), Keith Campbell (Sydney), Richard Glauser (Neuchâtel), Rudolf Haller (Graz), Massimo Mugnai (Florence), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva), Lorenzo Peña (Madrid), Willard van Orman Quine (Harvard), Wolfgang Röd (Innsbruck), Karl Schuhmann (Utrecht), Daniel Schulthess (Neuchâtel), Peter Simons (Salzburg), René Thom (Burs-sur-Yvette), Dallas Willard (Los Angeles), Jan Woleński (Cracow). Reprinted inter alia in: Silenus Laughed (Sydney), July 1992; The Cambridge Review, October 1992 (special issue on “The Derrida Affair”), p. 139-140; J. Derrida, Points ... Interviews, 1974–1994, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, 419-421; translated in La Stampa (Milan), 12 May 1992.
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Mark A. Musen, Suzanna Lewis and Barry Smith, “Wrestling with SUMO and bio-ontologies”, Nature Biotechnology, 24, 1 (2006), p. 21. PMC2768033
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Field, Dawn, Morrison, Norman, Glockner, Frank Oliver, Kottmann, Renzo, Cochrane, Guy, Vaughan, Robert, Garrity, George, Cole, Jim, Hirschman, Lynette, Schriml, Lynn, Mizrachi, Ilene, Federhen, Scott, Schindel, David, Miller, Scott, Hebert, Paul, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Hanner, Robert, Amaral-Zettler, Linda, Sogin, Mitchell, Ashburner, Michael, Lewis, Suzanna, Smith, Barry, “Working together to put molecules on the map”, Nature, 453 (7198), June 2008, 978.
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David Koepsell and Barry Smith, “Dealing with socially constructed concepts in an ontology”, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2009, 75-6.
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Barry Smith, Louis J. Goldberg, Alan Ruttenberg and Michael Glick, “Regarding Ontology and the Future of Dental Research Informatics”, The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), January, 142 (1), 2011, 252-254.
ENTRIES IN DICTIONARIES AND IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS 1.
“Art”, in N. Ashford and S. Davies (Eds., A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1991, 9–11, reprinted 2011. Spanish translation in: Diccionario del Pensamiento Conservador y Liberal, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Vision, 1992.
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“Conservative Theory”, in N. Ashford and S. Davies (Eds.), A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1991, 49–51. Spanish translation in: Diccionario del Pensamiento Conservador y Liberal, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Vision, 1992.
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“Nationalism”, in N. Ashford and S. Davies (Eds.), A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1991, 180–183. Spanish translation in: Diccionario del Pensamiento Conservador y Liberal, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Vision, 1992.
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“Introduction” to Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Munich/Philadelphia/Vienna: Philosopia, 1991, xix–xxiii.
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“Naive Physics”, in Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Munich/Philadelphia/Vienna: Philosopia, 1991, 585–586.
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“Meinong and the Graz School”, in Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Munich/ Philadelphia/Vienna: Philosopia, 1991, 519–522.
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“Sachverhalt”, Article in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, J. Ritter and K. Gründer (Eds.), Stuttgart and Basel: Schwabe, vol. 8, 1992, 1102–1113. Preprinted in: “Sachverhalt: eine begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung” (includes an extensive English summary), Forschungsberichte und Mitteilungen des Forschungsinstituts Philosophie/Technik/Wirtschaft, Universität Salzburg, 9 (1988), 41pp.
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“Aristotelianism, apriorism, essentialism”, in P. Boettke (Ed.), The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1994, 33–37.
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“Brentano”, in J. Kim and E. Sosa (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, 61–63.
10. “Ingarden”, in J. Kim and E. Sosa (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, 241–242. 11. “Ontology”, in J. Kim and E. Sosa (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, 373–374.
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12. “Realistic Phenomenology”, in L. Embree (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1997, 586–590.
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13. “Austria” in L. Embree (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1997, 43–48. 14. “Gestalt Psychology” in Edward Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge 1998, vol. 4, 51–54. 15. “Reinach” in Edward Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1998, vol. 8, 180–182. 16. “Axiology” in Edward Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge 1998, vol. 1, 271-273 (with Alan Watson). 17. “Witasek”, in Monika Betzler and Julian Nida-Rümelin (Eds.), Ästhetik und Kunstphilosophie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzeldarstellungen, Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1998, 821–824. 18. “Ingarden”, in Robert Audi (Ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 437. 19. “Brentano”, in MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, 94–95. 20. “Daubert”, in Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii, Lublin: Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu, 2001, 415-418. English version. 21. Steffen Schulze-Kremer and Barry Smith, “Ontologies for the Life Sciences”, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, vol. 4, 2005. 22. Barry Smith “John Searle”, Les sciences humaines, Ed. Patrick Savidan, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006, 1061-62. 23. James DuBois and Barry Smith, “Reinach”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008. 24. Barry Smith, “Biometaphysics”, Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Robin Le Poidevin, et al. (Eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 537-544.
TRANSLATIONS 1.
Translation of Adolf Reinach, “On the Theory of the Negative Judgment”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology, Munich: Philosophia, 1982, 315–377.
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Translation of Adolf Reinach, “William James and Pragmatism”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Speech Act and Sachverhalt. Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Nijhoff, 1987, 291–298.
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Franz Brentano, Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum, English translation by Barry Smith, London/ Sydney: Croom Helm, 1988, xxiv + 202pp. Reprinted Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Jonathan Barnes, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51 (2), 468-470.
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Translation of Christian von Ehrenfels, “On ‘Gestalt-Qualities’” and other writings on Gestalt theory, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory, Munich and Vienna: Philosophia, 1988, 82–123.
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“A Note on Brentano’s Terminology”, translator’s preface to Franz Brentano, Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum, London/Sydney: Croom Helm, 1988, xxii–xxiv.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES “Annotated Bibliography of Writings on Part-Whole Relations since Brentano”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology, Munich: Philosophia, 1982, 481–552.
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“Addenda to: Annotated Bibliography of Writings on Part-Whole Relations since Brentano”, in P. Sällström (Ed.), An Inventory of Present Thinking about Parts and Wholes, vol. III, Stockholm: Forskningsrådsnämnden, 1985, 74–86.
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“Chronicle”/”Husserl Bibliography”, cumulative bibliography of literature on and by Edmund Husserl, in Husserl Studies, triennially from issue 3/2, 1986 to 8/3, 1991.
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“Adolf Reinach: An Annotated Bibliography”, in K. Mulligan (Ed.), Speech Act and Sachverhalt, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Nijhoff, 1987, 299–332.
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“Gestalt Theory and Its Reception: An Annotated Bibliography”, in Barry Smith (Ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory, Munich and Vienna: Philosophia, 1988, 231–478.
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“Bibliography” in Barry Smith and David W. Smith (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 487–508.
REVIEWS AND REVIEW ARTICLES 1.
Roman Ingarden, The Literary Work of Art (Evanston 1973), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 6 (1975), 141–144.
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Reinhardt Grossmann, Meinong (London 1974), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 4 (1976), 147–148.
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Michael Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas (London 1978), Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 32 (1979), 365–368 (in German).
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Martin Heidegger, Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik (Frankfurt 1978), Annals of Science, 36 (1979), 103–105.
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Alexius Meinong, Gesamtausgabe (Graz 1971–79), Annals of Science, 36 (1979), 636–38. German version in Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 33 (1980), 236–240.
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Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl’s ‘Origins of Geometry.’ An Introduction (London 1979), Annals of Science, 36 (1979), 638–641.
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R. M. Chisholm and R. Haller (Eds.), Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos (Amsterdam 1978), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 11 (1980), 194–199.
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Alexius Meinong, On Objects of Higher Order and Husserl’s Phenomenology (M. L. Schubert-Kalsi (Ed.), The Hague 1978), The Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (1980), 252–254.
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Edmund Husserl, Aufsätze und Rezensionen 1890–1910 (The Hague 1979), Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 33 (1980), 313–315 (in German).
10. David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance (Oxford 1979), History and Philosophy of Logic, 2 (1981), 150–151. 11. Paul Gochet, Outline of a Nominalist Theory of Propositions (Dordrecht 1980), Grazer Philosophische Studien, 14 (1981), 216–217. 12. Edmund Husserl, Phantasie, Bildbewußtsein, Erinnerung. Zur Phänomenologie der anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigung (The Hague 1980), Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 35 (1982), 14–17 (in German). 13. Ludwig Landgrebe, The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (Ithaca 1981), History and Philosophy of Logic, 4 (1983), 111.
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14. Roger Schmit, Husserls Philosophie der Mathematik. Platonistische und konstruktivistische Momente in Husserls Mathematikbegriff (Bonn 1981), History and Philosophy of Logic, 4 (1983), 230–234. 15. Kurt Lewin, Wissenschaftstheorie I (Bern/Stuttgart 1981), History and Philosophy of Logic, 4 (1983), 235–238. 16. “Phänomenologie und angelsächsische Philosophie” [Review article on recent publications in phenomenology], Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 37 (1984), 387–405. 17. Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, “Traditional vs. Analytic Philosophy” [Review article on E. Tugendhat, Traditional and Analytic Philosophy], Grazer Philosophische Studien, 21 (1984), 193–202. 19. Edmund Husserl, Studien zur Arithmetik und Geometrie (The Hague 1983), History and Philosophy of Logic, 5 (1985), 228–230. 20. P. Jaeger and R. Lüthe (Eds.), Distanz und Nähe. Reflexionen und Analysen zur Kunst der Gegenwart (Würzburg 1983), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 16 (1985), 320–322. 21. Harald Delius, Self-Awareness: A Semantical Inquiry (Munich 1981), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 46 (1985), 170–173. 22. J. N. Mohanty, The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy (Dordrecht 1985), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 18 (1987), 299–301. 23. Paul Gochet, Ascent to Truth: A Critical Examination of Quine’s Philosophy (Munich/Vienna 1986), Grazer Philosophische Studien, 30 (1987), 212–213. 24. J. Macnamara, A Border Dispute. The Place of Logic in Psychology (Cambridge, Mass. 1987), History and Philosophy of Logic, 9 (1988), 126–128.
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26. Edmund Husserl, Aufsätze und Vorträge (1911–21) (Dordrecht 1987), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 21 (1990), 293–295 (with K. Schuhmann). 27. L. B. Puntel, Grundlagen einer Theorie der Wahrheit (Berlin/New York 1990), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52 (1992), 494–496. 28. Mark A. Notturno, (Ed.) Perspectives on Psychologism (Leiden 1989), History and Philosophy of Logic, 12 (1991), 249–251. 29. Felix Kaufmann, L’infinito in matematica (Gardolo di Trento 1990), History and Philosophy of Logic, 13 (1992), 131. 30. “The Philosophy of Austrian Economics” [Review article on David Gordon, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics (Auburn 1993)], Review of Austrian Economics, 7 (1994), 127–132. 31. Ernest Davis, Representations of Commonsense Knowledge (San Mateo 1990), Minds and Machines, 4/2 (1994), 245–249. 32. Kenneth J. Perszyk, Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary Philosophy (Dordrecht/Boston/London 1993), History and Philosophy of Logic, 16 (1995), 154–155. 33. Werner Stelzner (Ed.), Philosophie und Logik. Frege-Kolloquien Jena 1989/1991 (Berlin/New York 1993), History and Philosophy of Logic, 16 (1995), 155–156. 34. Edmund Husserl, Briefwechsel (10 volumes, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1994), Husserl Studies, 12 (1995), 98–104. 35. Arnold Heidsieck, The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka’s Fiction: Philosophy, Law, Religion (Columbia, SC 1994) in Nachrichten der Forschungsstelle und des Dokumentationszentrums für Österreichische Philosophie, 6 (1995), 47–49. 36. Gustav Bergmann, New Foundations of Ontology (Madison and London 1992), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 3 (1995), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 304–306. 37. Aurel Kolnai, The Utopian Mind (London 1995), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 27/2 (1996), 208–210. 38. Steven S. Pollard and Norman M. Martin, Closure Spaces and Logic (Dordrecht 1996), History and Philosophy of Logic, 17 (1996), 176–177. 39. Peter A. Burrough and Andrew U. Frank (Eds.), Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries (London and Bristol, PA. 1996), Dialectica, 55: 1 (2001), 72–74.
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Submitting an article to COSMOS + TAXIS implies that it is not under consideration (and has not been accepted) for publication elsewhere. COSMOS + TAXIS will endeavor to complete the refereeing process in a timely manner (i.e. a publication decision will be made available within three months). Papers should be double-spaced, in 12 point font, Times New Roman. Accepted papers are usually about 6,000-8,000 words long. However, we are willing to consider manuscripts as long as 12,000 words (and even more under very special circumstances). All self-identifying marks should be removed from the article itself to facilitate blind review. In addition to the article itself, an abstract should be submitted as a separate file (also devoid of authoridentifying information). Submissions should be made in Word doc format. 1. Submissions should be in English, on consecutively numbered pages. American, Canadian and UK spellings and punctuation are acceptable as long as they adhere consistently to one or the other pattern.
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2. Citations should be made in author-date format. A reference list of all works cited should be placed at the end of the article. The reference style is as follows: Author, A. B. (2013). Title. Journal, 1(1): 1-10. Author, C. D., Author, B., and Author, C. C. (2013). Article Title. in Title. City: Publisher, pp. 1-10. Author, J. E. and Author, B. (Eds.) Title. City: Publisher, pp. 1-10. Author, E. F. (2008). Title. Place: Publisher. 3. All notes should be as end notes. 4. No mathematical formulae in main text (but acceptable in notes or as an appendix). Please consult the latest issue of COSMOS + TAXIS to see a fully detailed example of the Journal’s elements of style.
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